Fourty Nine Days·Fiesta (Hunan TV , 2014)

Fourty Nine Days·Fiesta (四十九日·祭)  is a 2014 Chinese television series directed by Zhang Li (张黎) , starring Zhang Jiayi , Song Jia , Hu Ge and Zhang Ziyi . 

Details

• Drama : Fourty Nine Days·Fiesta / 四十九日·祭 (Hunan TV , 2014)
• Chinese : Si Shi Jiu Ri·Ji
• Directors: Zhang Li (张黎)
• Writer: Yan Geling (严歌苓) (novel author)
• Based on :  Jin Ling Shi San Chai (金陵十三钗)
• Genre: warfare, history
• Episodes: 48 sets (45 minutes)
• Broadcast network: Hunan TV
• Broadcast period: December 01 , 2014 
• Filming locations ; Nanjing , Shanghai , Beijing

Synopsis

Based on a novella by Geling Yan, 13 Flowers of Nanjing, inspired by the diary of Minnie Vautrin , which was adapted to cinema by Zhang Yimou in 2011.  In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Imperial Army overruns China's capital city, Nanking, in December and carries out the systematic and brutal Nanking massacre. A group of Nanjing residents, mostly women, seek refuge from the destruction at St. Madeleine Church in the city center, which is presided by unorthodox priest Fa Bi (Zhang Jiayi (张嘉译)).

Cast

• Zhang Jiayi (张嘉译) as Fa Bi
• Song Jia (宋佳) as Zhao Yumo
• Hu Ge (胡歌) as Dai Tao
• Zhang Xinyi (张歆艺) as Meng Shujuan
• Huang Zhizhong (黄志忠)  as Meng Fanming
• Huang Pinyuan (黄品沅) as Li Quan You
• Zhang Kejia (张可佳) as Dou Kou
• Ma Haobo (马浩博) as Wang Pusheng
• Sun Yilin (孙翌林) as Hong Ling
• Lv Yulai (吕聿来) as Chen Qiaozhi 
• Gao Ye (高叶) as Chun Chi
• Wang Zhifei (王志飞) as Xu Dapeng
• Lv Zhong (吕中) as Old Mrs Meng
• Li Qian (李倩) as Yang Rou Qi
• David Alonzo Peck as Father Ingmar