The astonishing destiny of General Luo

Born in Austria in 1903, Jacob Rosenfeld was imprisoned in Dachau. He manages to flee and takes refuge in Shanghai, like 30,000 other people. He exercised his profession there and sought to get involved in 1941 alongside the revolutionaries of the Chinese Communist Party. Rosenfeld becomes a surgeon on the war front between China and Japan. Thanks to his talents as a doctor and an organizer, he soon became close to Mao Tsé-Toung. In 1945, he was appointed general, responsible for the health of the armies and the entire liberated area. He is now called General Luo. Later, he became the Minister of Health of the first communist government. Thanks to his journal found in 2001, this documentary traces its extraordinary destiny.

• Emmanuel AmaraDirector · Writer
• Guy MarcillacEditor

Release date

January 1, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

52m

Genres

Documentary

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  Churchill: When Britain Said No

  2015

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  Manufactured Landscapes

  2006

• We Will Remain Faithful

  1945

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  Great Battles of WWII: Midway, Kursk, and Crete

  2004

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  Victory in the West

  1941

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  Blue Helmet

  1995

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  Red Guards after The Cultural Revolution

  1972

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  The General And Me

  2017

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  The Ugliest Car

  2017

• Iraq: Children of the Crisis

  2014

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  Mao: Seize the Day, Seize the Hour

  1972

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