A meeting that changed history

The film is also set to be released in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates, its distributors say.

Besides, it will also be simultaneously released to the North American audience via Smart Cinema USA, a mobile cinema app.

Unlike Beginning of the Great Revival, which covers 1911-21, the latest film is narrated over a shorter and more compact course in the title year, when the Party held its first National Congress in Shanghai and Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, in the summer of 1921, laying the foundation for its rise.

Continuously employing the successful stardom formula, an innovation for revolutionary films starting from The Founding of a Republic (2009), which was also jointly directed by Huang and Han, 1921 casts legions of A-listers to play historical figures, ranging from the founding members of the CPC to political celebrities and the notorious Chinese police officers in Shanghai's foreign concessions.