Swelling Waters
1978, Chinese. Directed by Dong Kena & Que Wen.
Huai River floods in the fall of 1950 and a volunteer army must fight both the raging river as well as imperialist spies keen to sabotage the relief work.
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 1 January 1978
- Original title
- 巨澜
- Country
- China
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Swelling Waters runs 123 minutes (2h 3m).
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Swelling Waters isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1978. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Swelling Waters?
Swelling Waters (1978) was directed by Dong Kena and Que Wen and stars Du Peng, Yu Ping, Zhang Lianwen.