The fine camera work evokes the sights and smells of the Orient. Sung Neng Yee, with reckless abandon, starts agitating for her own release….ĬHINA CRY is director Collier’s best since THE HIDING PLACE.

He is being drained by drugs that cause him to bleed profusely. During that time, she learns that her father, once an imminent doctor, has been persecuted and is being used for biological experiments. She is sent to hard labor, pregnant with her third child. She bargains with her life for her husband and daughter’s release to Hong Kong. An underground prayer group provides food for her baby. A sudden lightening storm prevents a firing squad from killing her. However, in the process, she remembers the teachings of her Christian grammar school and calls out to God for salvation. During the next few years of her life, in which she marries and has three children, she is subjected to excruciating persecution, as she comes into more and more conflict with the repressive regime of Red China. Officials of the brutalizing Communist system, with its interrogations, brainwashing, forced labor, torture, and firing squads, decide to break Sung Neng Yee of any bourgeois tendencies. All goes well with her university studies to become a lawyer until she falls in love with Lam Cheng Shen, who comes from Hong Kong. The invasion is the beginning of a life of tribulation for Sung Neng Yee, who, as the credits tell us, becomes the Christian missionary, Nora Lam.Īfter the defeat of the Japanese, Sung Neng Yee joins the Communists, believing they are the liberators of her beloved China. Servants cater to her every whim, until one day bombs drop into the palatial garden, and the Japanese seize her house. Trinity Broadcasting Network has gone all out in this beautifully filmed and produced movie about the making of a Christian.Īdopted by the prominent Sung family in Shanghai in 1941, a little girl is treated like a princess. What a joy to find Christians producing high quality feature films for the mass market.

China Cry by Nora Lam