The Passion of the Mao

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DIRECTOR: Lee Feigon
LANGUAGE: English
RUN TIME: 90 mins
RATING: NR

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Product Code: 892686001064

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The Passion of the Mao will be released on DVD August 26, 2008. Pre -Orders our now being accepted.

Who Know Communism Could be so Funny?

This madcap documentary re-examines the cultural revolution and restores the once bright reputation of Mao Zedong.

�The Passion of the Mao� begins by correcting misconceptions about Mao�s early years. Unlike the tryants with whom he is usually compared, Mao was a successful scholar and businessman before he became a rabble-rouser.

By the mid 1950s,he had unified China, spurred an impressive rate of growth,restructured the education system,and improved living stnadards.

Then he became a Maoist. Mao devoted the rest of his life to eliminating the centralized Soviet Bureacracy heand his colleagues had built.

The film takes viewers back to the 1960s. Successful women and men,some now professors at major universitites in the west, credit Mao and especially the Culutral Revolution for making them feminists and allowing them access to education.

During the Culutral Revolution, Mao brought Western-style ballets and operas, reinterpreted in Chinese form,to China�s Villagess.Peasants chose leaders who represented their true interest, and rural communities built schools independent of the central government.

And what about the anti-Maoist beliefs that have sullied the reputation of the man once referred to as �The Sun in the Sky?�They are part of a vast radical conspiracy, the result of propaganda churned out by the same people who turned the tanks on the tiananmen demonstrators.