The Drum Awards for Marketing - Extended Deadline

-d -h -min -sec

Author

By John Glenday, Reporter

August 17, 2015 | 1 min read

A Chinese war movie has come under greater fire off screen than any on-screen action after its producers sought to toy with history by placing Chairman Mao at the heart of a key wartime conference which he never attended.

The Cairo Declaration dramatises events of the eponymous meeting of world powers and is due to appear in cinemas later this month as part of nationwide celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender.

In reality Mao never appeared at the desert summit, with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek representing the Far East nation alongside Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill who represented the countries of China, the US and the UK respectively.

In response Chinese internet users have been busy ribbing the producers flexible interpretation of history with satirists variously replacing Mao’s visage with that of Kim Jong-un, Gollum, Saddam Hussein, and the Minions at the historic conference.

China

More from China

View all