Our Idol Mao Zedong - Europeans and the Cultural Revolution

Mao Zedong, founding father and dictator of communist China, shaped his country like no other 20th century leader. In the 1960s, he plunged his country into the Cultural Revolution, a violent campaign of mass incitement, the bitter repercussions of which can still be felt today. This documentary tells the stories of contemporary European witnesses whose lives became inextricably linked to Mao's.