一九四二

1942年，抗日战争与第二次世界大战正处于白热化阶段。燎原之火，生灵涂炭，天灾人祸，哀鸿遍野。当军事家和政治家的目光聚焦在一城一郭的征伐劫掠之时，几乎鲜少有人注意到古老的中原河南正爆发一场惨绝人寰的大旱灾。影片的主角老东家（张国立 饰），狡猾、市侩，典型的封建地主，可即便如此也无法对抗这史无前例的灾难，他被迫逃荒，亲眼见证着儿子、儿媳、老伴等亲人的种种死状。他的遭遇是三百万灾民的缩影，面对这群人的苦难，无论是高高在上的蒋委员长（陈道明 饰），还是深入民间报道灾难真相的美国记者白修德（阿德里安•布劳迪 Adrien Brody 饰），以及海内外的每一个人，如何能从这眼前的人间炼狱之景侧目。绝望无止的逃生坎途，中华民族多舛命运的苦难一斑…… 　　本片根据刘震云的小说《温故一九四二》改编。A famine with multiple contributing factors and devastating effects during the Second Sino-Japanese war is chronicled from the official perspective of reporters, generals, politicians and real families whose lives were forever altered by drastic measures they were forced to take in order to survive. Alternately ignoring the dire nature of the famine and its subsequent exodus of millions of people from the Hunen province, and minimizing its devastation to the outside world, the Chinese Nationalist government of the time is one which seems to be over burdened by ongoing war efforts and corruption in the distribution of relief supplies. Policy and private life are worlds apart in stopping the devastation shown through the portrayals of those who lived to tell the tale and their accounts of those who were not so lucky, of whom there were many (3 million.) This is a true story based upon Liu Zhenyun's novel "Remembering 1942," Zhenyun himself is the descendant of a survivor of the 1942 famine and his family story is poignantly portrayed--showing heroism, self sacrifice, terrible misfortune and ultimate survival of the lucky few.