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Spring and Autumn in a Small Town

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Director: 罗泰
Cast: 梁波罗 · 徐佳音 · 赵之连 · 高建英 · 韩寒 · 张志强

Storyline

Adapted from Gao Yunlan's novel of the same name. On the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the anti-Japanese movement in Xiamen is in full swing. One day, the traitor Zhou Sen brings secret police from the investigation office to arrest people from the anti-Japanese mass organisation 'Xiamen Union'. Its leader, Communist Party member Wu Jian, immediately warns his comrades to flee but is himself arrested. The cunning head of the investigation office, Zhao Xiong, is a former sworn brother of Wu Jian and tries to use their old friendship to make Wu reveal Party secrets and betray the whereabouts of underground Party leader Li Yue. Wu Jian stands firm and foils Zhao Xiong's schemes, and also discovers that the clerk of the investigation office, Shuyin, is his long-lost sweetheart; Shuyin's shock at seeing her lover is noticed by Zhao Xiong. Thrown into a cell, Wu Jian encourages his fellow prisoners Zhong Qian and Beixun to keep faith in victory. Communist Party member He Jianping, a member of the 'Xiamen Union', escapes after Wu Jian's warning and reaches the home of the brave Wu Qi, where he sees his fiancée Xiuwei and tells her that Li Yue is working to rescue Wu Jian and the others. When one plan fails, Zhao Xiong tries another and hopes to use Shuyin to persuade Wu Jian to surrender. Shuyin agrees outwardly but has other ideas; she finds Xiuwei and proposes a plan to rescue Wu Jian en route, but Xiuwei, unaware of the truth, angrily denounces her as an enemy clerk who has sold her soul. Shuyin leaves humiliated and seeks out the patriotic overseas Chinese and old headmaster Xue Jiashu, winning his understanding and trust. Zhao Xiong interrogates Wu Jian again and has Shuyin meet him alone. She takes the chance to show him a handwritten note from Xue Jiashu, asking Wu Jian to trust her and tell her his contacts outside prison so a rescue can be arranged, but Wu Jian cannot tell whether it is genuine and firmly refuses. Through the Party organisation Xiuwei learns that Shuyin is honest and reliable, but she stops the reckless attempt by Wu Qi, Jianping and others to hijack a car and rescue Wu Jian. She tells Jianping that the organisation wants him to move away at once. Plainclothes agents come to Wu Qi's house to search for Jianping; unable to escape in time, he fights the agents fiercely and is wounded and arrested. The prison guard Lao Yao, an underground worker planted by the Party in the enemy prison, conveys to Wu Jian and the others the underground Party's decision to storm the prison from inside and outside. From secret documents Shuyin learns that the enemy will take Wu Jian and the others to the provincial capital that day and kill He Jianping. With the situation suddenly changed, the underground Party organisation changes its plan.