Ms Phoenix is chair of the Coalition of Resistance, which describes itself as "a broad movement of active resistance" to the coalition government's austerity drive.

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Tang Wei, a former model and a prodigious young actress, plays a member of a political-theatre group that carries its playacting into active resistance to the Japanese occupation.

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