Abstract
During the Cultural Revolution the Chinese cinema world went through an ordeal, very similar to a suffering in a war or in a concentration camp. Although the cinema people were liberated from physical and spiritual torments when the Cultural Revolution was over, they continued to suffer from its traumas. They were haunted by odious memories that came back to them accidentally, no matter how hard they might try to forget them and no matter how hard they were forced to forget.
The Chinese films made immediately after the Cultural Revolution vividly evoke the wounds that still lay in people’s mind at that time. This essay is an attempt to shed a light on how the traumas are portrayed in these movies and how they are dissolved.
