Battle on Shangganling Mountain (1956)
Genre : War, Drama
Runtime : 2H 3M
Director : Shan Lin, Meng Sha
Writer : Meng Sha, Shan Lin, Xin Cao, Jiajun Cui
Synopsis
(From Wikipedia)- "Battle on Shangganling Mountain follows a group of Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers who are holding Triangle Hill for several days against US forces. Short of both food and water, they hold their ground until the relief troops arrive. The movie portray the battle as a Chinese victory over an American invasion, and the People's Volunteer Army soldiers were shown as Chinese war heroes."
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