Sacred Fire in a Remote Place (tian bian you yi chu sheng huo)

Sacred Fire in a Remote Place (tian bian you yi chu sheng huo)

By ChinaFilm.com Published: 2008-06-04

This is a story about the PLA soldiers who guard China s borders. Platoon Leader Lan Her has worked on the frontier for more than ten years. He is about to be promoted to a company commander, he is unexpectedly replaced by some one else. Planning to take his wife out from the countryside and let her live a better life, he now fails in his expectations. Lan Her makes full allowances for the organization s difficulties, and so applies to return., as a demobbed troop, to the countryside to be with his wife. Platoon Leader Liu Qingjian, who comes from a cadre s family, returns to the borer post after graduating from military school, even though he has the option to stay on and live the comfortable life of a PLA teacher. For his action he wins the trust of his comrades-in-arms, and wins his girlfriend s understanding and support
Screenplay: Zheng Zhenyao
Director: Song Zhao
Cinematography: Zhang Chi, Ye Naijun
Art Director: Sun Guoqing
Music: Wang Xiaoyong
Starring: Wei Ji an, Zhang Guangbei, Wang Liyun
Running time: 109 min.
Produced by August First Film Studio
Produced in 1991