31-12-1972

Rødgardisterne efter Kulturrevolutionen

The Red Guards after the Cultural Revolution

En film af Dino Raymond Hansen & Gregers Nielsen

Format / 16mm
Varighed / 39 min.
Produceret for DR / Danmark 1972

Wake Film / YouTube

Rødgardisterne var en studenterbevægelse støttet af Mao Zedong i 1966-67 under Kulturrevolutionen. En gruppe studenter på Qinghua Universitet, som kaldte sig Rødgardister, slog 2 vægaviser op i maj-juni 1966. Studenterne kritiserede universitetets administration for elitetænkning og borgerlig tankegang.
I august 1966 udtrykte Mao Zedong støtte til Rødgardisterne. Dette gav studenterbevægelsen politisk legitimitet, og den spredte sig uden for Beijing.
Rødgardisterne begyndte at angribe De Fire Gamle og marcherede gennem Kina for at udrydde gamle idéer, gamle kulturer, gamle skikke og gamle vaner.
Til sidst førte kampen mellem forskellige Rødgardist-fraktioner til en kaotisk borgerkrigslignende situation. I løbet af 1967-68 bragte Folkets Befrielseshær bevægelsen under kontrol og genoprettede den sociale orden.
Begyndende fra slutningen af 1968 blev medlemmer af Rødgardist-bevægelsen sent ud på landet for at blive genopdraget. Vi mødte og filmede dem i august 1971.

Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 1966-67 during the Cultural Revolution. A group of students at Qinghua University who issued 2 big-character posters in May-June 1966 called themselves Red Guards. The students criticised the university administration of elitism and bourgeois tendencies.
In August 1966 Mao Zedong expressed support for the Red Guards. This gave the student movement political legitimacy and it spread outside Beijing.
The Red Guards started to attack the Four Olds and marched across China to eradicate old ideas, old cultures, old customs and old habits.
Ultimately the struggle between different Red Guard factions led to a chaotic civil-war-like situation. During 1967-68 the Peoples Liberation Army got the movement under control and restored social order.
Beginning late 1968 members of the Red Guard movement were sent to the countryside to undergo re-education. We met and filmed them in August 1971.