Tian Zhuangzhuang

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

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1952 - Beijing - China - Chinese - Film director

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Son of Tian Fang, a famous actor in the 1930s and a director who became head of the Beijing Film studio, and Yu Lan, an actress who later ran the China's Children's Film Studio, Tian began as an amateur photographer and as an AC at the Beijing Agricultural Film Studio. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, together with a cohort of Fifth Generation directors which included Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.

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Tian Fang - Actor - Yu Lan - Beijing Agricultural Film Studio - Beijing Film Academy - Chen Kaige - Zhang Yimou

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Tian's work has been drawn fire from the Chinese government, especially The Horse Thief (like lots of his early work, about ethnic minorities in China) and The Blue Kite, the latter about adverse events following Communist rule: the Hundred Flowers Movement, the Great Leap Forward and especially the Cultural Revolution. Footage of The Blue Kite was smuggled out of the country; Tian has denied complicity in the act. After a hiatus of some 9 years, he returned with a remake of Fei Mu's famous Spring in a Small Town (1948), this time as Springtime in a Small Town (2002). In 2004 he made the first HDTV feature of China, a documentary called Delamu, on ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Tibet.

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The Horse Thief - The Blue Kite - Hundred Flowers Movement - Great Leap Forward - Cultural Revolution - HDTV - Yunnan - Tibet

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