Unsung Hero

This film (drama)Also known as英雄无名，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2008Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin/Cantonese，Current Douban rating8.0(For reference only)。

"Unsung Hero" reveals for the first time the little-known story of Comrade Yan Baohang, a legendary figure in our party's covert operations and a strategic intelligence specialist. Zhang Xueliang's senior aide and close friend, once a favored figure around Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, and the deputy general secretary of the "New Life Movement," Yan Baohang reached the rank of major general in the political department of the National Government's Military Commission. However, this "devout Christian," friend of Military Secret Service Director Dai Li and Central Bureau Director Xu Enzeng, was personally introduced to join the party as a "Red super spy" by Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai tasked Yan Baohang with using his position and connections within the Nationalist Party to secretly collect international strategic intelligence for Yan'an and the Communist International. In 1941, Chongqing was the eastern center of the international anti-fascist battlefield. It was in this turbulent wartime temporary capital of China that Yan Baohang leveraged his connections, navigating between the core of the Nationalist government and the diplomatic circles of the United States, Britain, Japan, and Germany. With superb skills and remarkable courage, he led his intelligence team in a seemingly calm yet thrilling espionage battle. The outbreak of the "Anhui South Incident" necessitated Yan Baohang's covert maneuvering within the Nationalist government's Foreign Ministry in order to create conditions for a meeting between the American government envoy and Zhou Enlai, thereby contributing to the Chinese Communist Party's counterattack against the Nationalist Party's anti-Communist surge. At this time, Yan Baohang's intelligence team's radio signals came under the military monitoring system. Military Secret Service Director Dai Li ordered Major General Tan Wenqiang to investigate the radio signals. Following his investigation, Tan quickly pinpointed Yan Baohang as a suspect, believing he was connected to the radio and targeting him as his primary opponent, attempting to dismantle Yan Baohang's group through radio espionage. Yan Baohang learned through his channels that German Nazi leader Hitler personally met with the Nationalist ambassador's military attaché in Germany, Gui Yongqing, who, along with two German intelligence officers, secretly returned to Chongqing. Collecting various intelligence and conducting his own analysis, Yan Baohang concluded that Gui Yongqing brought back extremely important classified information for Chiang Kai-shek. After receiving instructions from Hongyan Village, Yan Baohang managed to deal with the monitoring and investigation of Military Secret Service agents and the garrison commander's military police while seeking breakthroughs in information gathering based on Gui Yongqing's homecoming. To divert Military Secret Service attention, Yan Baohang leaked the leads he received from Japanese spy He Kang to both Dai Li and Xu Enzeng, creating a "dog-eat-dog" situation between the Military Secret Service and the Central Bureau. At the same time, he cleverly established relations with the military attaché at the German Embassy in China to further uncover that Nazi Germany was planning significant military movements in the summer. Finally, during a high-profile banquet, Yan Baohang obtained shocking information from Nationalist officials: Nazi Germany was set to launch a lightning war against the Soviet Union around June 20, an operation linked to the so-called "Operation Barbarossa," a top-secret plan of the Nazi high command. Yan Baohang narrowly escaped Military Secret Service agents tracking him, allowing two secret radio stations from his intelligence group to simultaneously report this world-shocking strategic intelligence to Yan'an and the Soviet Embassy in China. After receiving this intelligence, the Soviet Red Army took timely emergency measures, preventing the full efficacy of the Nazi military's lightning war. Because of the prompt provision of this crucial intelligence, Stalin and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union expressed their gratitude to the CCP through telegram. Due to the leak of "Operation Barbarossa," Dai Li, who publicly seemed to be in close relations with Yan Baohang but privately suspected his identity, resolved to find evidence to eliminate Yan Baohang. He assigned Tan Wenqiang to secretly investigate Yan Baohang's activities during and after that banquet, even sending agents into Yan Baohang's home for covert surveillance. During this process, personnel linked to Yan Baohang's group within the underground Communist organization were suddenly arrested by Military Secret Service, one of whom defected, placing Yan Baohang's group once again at a critical juncture between life and death. After careful analysis of the situation, Yan Baohang rejected Zhou Enlai's directive to evacuate Chongqing, opting to continue gathering intelligence amidst the dangers posed by the secret police. By late 1941, under instructions from Hongyan Village, Yan Baohang targeted the newly established Special Technical Research Office of the Military Secret Service. Through political maneuvers, he brought the head of the Special Technical Research Office into his circle and, through this contact, obtained another extremely important strategic piece of intelligence: the Japanese air forces, under General Miura's command, were set to launch a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet in early December. Meanwhile, Major General Tan Wenqiang's investigation into Yan Baohang had also deepened, nearly obtaining key evidence to eliminate him and his group. Yan Baohang once again used his connections with Nationalist Party senior officials to rescue captured comrades, thwarting Dai Li's conspiracy and Tan Wenqiang's assassination plan while reporting the strategic intelligence on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Yan'an. In 1945, with the surrender of the Nazis and the end of the European War, the focus of the international anti-fascist battlefield shifted eastward. The Soviet Union urgently contacted the CCP, requesting intelligence regarding the Japanese Kwantung Army. After taking on this critical task, Yan Baohang utilized his connections within the U.S. Army, Military Secret Service, and government to finally gather detailed information on the deployment of the Japanese Kwantung Army from the Military Command's third office. He secured authorization from Political Department Minister Chen Cheng through his ties with Soong Meiling and approached this intelligence under the guise of studying northeastern conditions due to their shared northeastern backgrounds with leaders of the Military Secret Service and the third office. However, Tan Wenqiang, who had unresolved grudges from previous investigations, discovered Yan Baohang's activities again and embarked on a new dangerous mission against him. Just as Yan Baohang was about to obtain this invaluable intelligence, Tan Wenqiang aimed his gun at him. In a critical moment, an underground intelligence operative who had been protecting Yan Baohang within the Military Secret Service emerged and shot Tan Wenqiang, allowing Yan Baohang to escape and deliver the intelligence to the Central Committee. Tragically, in order to protect Yan Baohang, the underground intelligence operative sacrificed his life. Due to Yan Baohang's acquisition of detailed intelligence on the Kwantung Army's deployment, the Soviet Red Army advanced into Northeast China, decisively defeating the Japanese Kwantung Army, thus bringing World War II to a conclusion. Yan Baohang obtained three strategic pieces of intelligence, establishing him as a shining beacon in the history of CCP intelligence and playing a significant role in the overall landscape of the global anti-fascist war, leading to his formal recognition by the Russian government in 1995. His identity as a "Red super spy" and his achievements remained largely unknown until half a century later...