Chen Kaige's film "Volunteers" trilogy was announced. The film started shooting in the summer of 2022, and it took more than 300 days and nights before it was officially finished. The actors who participated in the filming collectively reported for duty, and the whole group relayed the role photos to bid farewell to this filming process.

Based on the image of volunteers, the film presents the heroic sons and daughters who defended the motherland on all fronts on the occasion of the first anniversary of the founding of New China, and tells the grand epic of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea for three years.

"Volunteer Army: Watergate Bridge" is based on the Battle of Watergate Bridge, which shows that the 19 Army and the 20th Army of the Volunteer Army bravely resisted the attack of the US military and created an amazing miracle. Starring actors include, Yi, Zhang Hanyu, Zhu, etc., as well as new generation actors such as,, Zhou, etc.

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The trilogy "Volunteers" is the first film in film history to reproduce this "war of founding a country" in a panoramic and multi-threaded way. In order to restore the real historical scenes and operational conditions, the crew spared no effort to save money. Director Chen Kaige said: "This is the most difficult creation I have encountered in the past 40 years."

It is reported that the crew filmed in Zhanjiang, Chongqing, Yancheng, Chengde and other places for more than a year, and experienced various difficulties and obstacles such as intense heat and cold, violent wind and dust, and blasting fires. The actors also received systematic militarization training, dressed in military uniforms, and integrated with the characters in the wilderness, trenches and at the foot of the mountain, showing the courage and sacrifice of the volunteers.