我虽死去 (2006)

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Though I Am Gone is a 2007 Chinese documentary film directed, written, and edited by Hu Jie. The film centers on Bian Zhongyun, the vice principal of the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University, who was beaten to death by her students on August 5, 1966 during the Red August of Chinese Cultural Revolution. The film is being distributed in North America by dGenerate Films.

Production

In an interview with director Hu Jie, the filmmaker stated that it "took a year of negotiations and a viewing of the Lin Zhao film (referring to Hu's 2004 film Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul) to persuade Bian's aging husband to tell his story and show his photographs for the first time". The film uses a combination of black and white and colour shots.

The documentary uses a variety of historical materials, including photographs, dazibao posters, newspaper clippings, and archival footage. the materials are combined with Wang Jingyao’s testimony to help reconstruct the events surrounding Bian Zhongyun’s death. The film have both personal memories with documentary evidence to preserve the history of Bian Zhongyun's death and the early Cultural Revolution.

The title of the film is derived from a poem in Doctor Zhivago (1957) that was written by the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890–1960). The last two excepts of Gethsemane's Garden from The Poems of Doctor Zhivago as translated by Christopher Barns:

And from the grave on the third day I'll rise.

Then, like a fleet of barges down the stream,

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