China has picked World War II documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru as its submission for the Oscars‘ best international feature film category.
Directed by Fang Li, the film’s selection is the first documentary that the country has picked as its representative at the Academy Awards.
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru was the opening film of the Shanghai International Film Festival, held in June. Using live interviews, historical footage and animated reconstructions, the documentary focuses on a WWII event in 1942 when a Japanese transport ship named The Lisbon Maru was torpedoed by the U.S.
Navy. Onboard the vessel were British prisoners-of-war and over 800 British troops perished during the incident. Around 380 British prisoners-of-war were saved by nearby Chinese fishermen.
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