Though I Am Gone

Filmmaker Hu Jie investigates the heartbreaking fate of a schoolteacher killed by her own pupils during the Cultural Revolution. In 1966, Mao’s Red Guards swept across China, targeting those labeled as Rightists. Bian Zhongyun, a respected vice principal at a top Beijing school, was beaten to death by the students she once taught, marking one of the earliest deaths in the wave of revolutionary brutality that soon consumed the whole country.