Shi Dongshan
Shi Dongshan ( Chinese 史 东山 , Pinyin Shǐ Dōngshān ; real name: Kuang Shao ; born December 29, 1902 in Haining , Zhejiang ; † February 23, 1955 ) was a Chinese film director.
Life
He started out as an outfitter and actor in film in the 1920s. He made his directorial debut in 1925. By 1930 he was the director of several films, mainly from the action genre. For the Lianhua Film Company he shot the romance Two Stars in the Milky Way (Yinhe Shuangxing) with Jin Yan in 1931 under the name "Tomsie Sze" . In the 1930s, under the influence of left-wing filmmakers, Shi found cinematic realism and, after the Japanese invasion of China, patriotic resistance films such as Gongfu Guonan ("Together to Save the Country") (1932), Renzhi Chu ("At the Beginning of Man" ) (1935) and Qingnian Jinxingqu (“March of the Youth”) (1937). Shi then worked in a theater company in Chongqing . After the war he returned to the film metropolis Shanghai and made his most important film Ba qian li lu yun he yue ( 八千 里 路 云 和 月 - "Four thousand kilometers under clouds and moon") in 1947 . It is colored autobiographically and deals with the resistance against the Japanese occupation from the perspective of a left-wing theater group. The protagonist of the film is the student Lingyu, played by Bai Yang .
For his last film Xin er nu ying xiong zhuang ("A Tale of New Heroes", 1951) he wrote the script and directed.
Shi Dongshan died of suicide .
Web links
- Shi Dongshan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmography
- Shi Dongshan at cnmdb.com (with photo)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shi, Dongshan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuang Shao (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haining , Zhejiang |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1955 |