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Picture of Fei Mu [Photo: Baidu.com]
The restored version of the film "Confucius" by Chinese director Fei Mu in 1940 will be screened at the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival, "The Wall Street Journal" reports.
The movie about the most famous man in Chinese history caused a great stir at last year's film festival, because it had been considered lost. A man who had found a negative of the film anonymously donated it to the Hong Kong Film Archive, which later restored the classic film. The movie is being shown again this year.
Suki (Shu Qi), Dean of the School of Film and Television at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, said: "Fei Mu did not produce a great number of films, and most of his works are lost or incomplete. But of all the directors of China, he was one of the most serious and intellectual filmmakers."
Fei's 1948 movie "Spring in a Small Town" will also be screened at the film festival. It is regarded by many critics to be China's greatest film. It tells the story of the love triangle between a once prosperous tubercular man, his wife and his best friend.
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