Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)

The Founding of a Party, alternatively titled in English Beginning of the Great Revival for its international release, is a Chinese film released in 2011 to mark the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. The film is directed by Huang Jianxin and Han Sanping, both of whom also worked on the similar historical film The Founding of a Republic, and features a star-studded cast of Chinese actors including Andy Lau and Chow Yun-fat. The film was created by the state-owned China Film Group, and depicts the formation of the Chinese Communist Party from the fall of the Qing dynasty to the Party's creation in 1921. The film will be available in IMAX theaters in China, and is subject to a limited international release through AMC theaters.

The Founding of a Party is set in the period between 1911, from the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution in China, and the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921. During the early 20th century, China was marked by political disunity, and a handful of individuals, including Mao Zedong, Li Dazhao and Zhou Enlai, envisioned a unified China. After World War I, the Western Allies gave Tsingtao and Kiaochow Bay to the Empire of Japan, stirring sentiments amongst China's youth which led to the May Fourth Movement. In March 1920, Grigori Voitinsky came to China in an attempt to spread communism to the Far East, and on 22 July 1921, thirteen representatives from throughout China met up at Shanghai's women's dormitory in what would be the beginning of the party.