Yu Xi | Huang Xin | Zhao Ningyu
Winner Profile
Best Screenplay
Screenwriters, 1921
Jury Citation
The screenwriters of 1921 combine grand narrative with individualised characterisation to recreate the great course of the Party's founding by passionate young revolutionary pioneers 100 years ago. The plot, built around the founding of the Party, is full of twists, its emotional expression is rich, and it portrays a full, three-dimensional ensemble of characters, striking an emotional and spiritual chord with today's audiences. Winner of Best Screenplay.
1921: Synopsis
Taking a cross-section of the era as its perspective, the film focuses on events around 1921 and gives a panoramic recreation of a momentous, epoch-making moment a century ago: young people from all over the country, with an average age of only 28, evaded the surveillance and pursuit of complex international forces and gathered in Shanghai to hold the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, witnessing the founding of the Party.