Assembly
Rating: 7.3/5999 Plot Summary:
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield, and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of war's insatiable appetite, Guzidi, Captain of the Ninth Company, will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948 witnessed the launching of the Huaihai Campaign during the Chinese Civil War. In one of Chinese history's deadliest battles, thousands from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Nationalist Army (KMT) fell in the battle that took place between Xuzhou and Bengdu. It was amid this bloody fight that Captain Guzidi led the Ninth Company infantry unit on a sniper mission. His orders were to fight the KMT Army until the retreat assembly call was sounded. Yet, after many long hours of painstaking resistance, Gu watched powerless as the ammunition ran out and the scant ranks of the Ninth Company …
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Running time: 2h 4min
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Release date: 20 December 2007 (China)
Cast: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang, Fan Liao, Baoqiang Wang, Jun Hu, Quan Ren, Ming Hu, Naiwen Li, Heng Fu, Wu Hongwu, Peng Ye, Shaokang Zhao
