Main actors: Tang Yan, Hu Jun, Zhang Hanyu, Deng Chao, Ren Quan
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Plot introduction:
During the Liberation War, Captain Lao Gu of the First Company received an order from the commander of the Third Regiment to lead his soldiers to rush to the position to complete a blocking task so that the main force could retreat safely. They agreed that after hearing the assembly call, the first company could break through and withdraw. But the whole company of soldiers never heard the sound of the assembly call. Except for Lao Gu who was saved by a local villager, all other soldiers were killed in action. Since then, finding out from the regiment commander why the assembly call was not sounded has become Lao Gu's lifelong pursuit. Decades later, he learned that the regiment commander had already been sacrificed on the battlefield in Korea. The commander's guard revealed the secret: when the main force was transferring, the commander did not let the bugler blow the bugle. It had already been decided to sacrifice the First Company to ensure the safe transfer of the main force. Until his last moment, the commander still felt guilty and repentant about his decision. Lao Gu eventually forgave the commander. As the leading male actor in "Assembly", Zhang Hanyu and the tough man image of "Gu Zidi" he created in the film have become the focus of attention from all circles. Nowadays, with the prevalence of pretty boys and effeminate style, the market needs a strong man image that can stand on its own, and Zhang Hanyu is a typical representative of this type.
In "Assembly", there is actually only one absolute protagonist - Zhang Hanyu. The role of "political instructor" played by Ren Quan only lasts about 20 minutes, and he dies in the first battle. However, it took Ren Quan four hours to "die". In the opening war scene, one of his legs was blown off. The lens needed to bury one of his legs in the soil to create the scene of a severed limb, and this burial lasted for four hours, with the temperature at minus 20 degrees Celsius at the time. To make Ren Quan's explosion more realistic, Director Feng specially invited experts to spend over 100,000 yuan to custom-make a silicone dummy for him. "When I saw this silicone dummy, I was dumbfounded, it was too terrifying, almost exactly like me." Because it was so lifelike, Ren Quan sometimes couldn't bear it, "Seeing it finally treated as a bloody mess lying on the ground, it really felt like myself."
Feng Xiaogang claims that "Assembly" is a men's play, without any private affection between sons and daughters. Although his movies have always featured cold humor as a characteristic, he will not deliberately add humor for the sake of humor in "Assembly".
This film is adapted from Yang Jinyuan's novel "Litigation", with the story background set between 1948 and 1956. A company of soldiers were all killed in action but no one knew about it. Through the process of searching and tracing back, the film showcases the heroic and touching deeds of these few soldiers.