Tian Zhuangzhuang

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Tian Zhuangzhuang (2010)

Tian Zhuangzhuang ( Chinese  田壯壯 ; * 1952 in Beijing , China ) is a Chinese director .

Life

The son of Tian Fang , a well-known actor from the 1930s who became head of the Beijing film studio after the Communist Party came to power, and Yu Lan, an actress who later also became the director of the national children's film studio, grew up in a privileged environment. Together with other famous filmmakers such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, he was the first class after the Cultural Revolution in 1982 to graduate from the Beijing Film School and is a representative of the 5th generation (filmmaking).

His films On the Hunting Ground (1984), The Horse Thief (1986) and The Blue Kite (1993) stand out from the rest of the works before 1993, which are more of a commercial nature. After the first two, who were already dealing with the role of the authorities (they play in the Mongolian and Tibetan parts of China), were only displaced in small numbers because of the censorship , he got the material for Blue Kite out of the country unnoticed and left it in Cut Tokyo , where it then won a total of five awards at the film festival. The fate of a Chinese family during the 1950s and 1960s is told from the perspective of a boy. In the episodes “Right Deviator Campaign”, “Big Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution” it is shown how the real family develops away from each other and the CP takes the place of the family and allows them to become a community of convenience without feelings.

In China, Tian was then banned from cooperation. Nobody should help him to make films anymore. That is why he worked for 10 years as a film producer in Beijing studios before he released his own film again in 2003, Springtime in a Small Town , a remake of Fei Mus's classic from 1948. In 2004 he was the first in China to work with the HDTV format to create a documentary (“delamu”) about ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Tibet.

Filmography

  • Delamu (2004)
  • Springtime in a Small Town (2003)
  • The Blue Kite (1993)
  • Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch (1991)
  • Rock 'n' Roll Kids (1988)
  • Drum Singer (1987)
  • The Horse Thief (1986)
  • Jiuyue (1984)
  • On the Hunting Ground (1984)
  • Red Elephant (1982)
  • Our Corner (1980)

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