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Xie Fei

Xie Fei

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Biography

Xie Fei (Chinese: 谢飞; pinyin: Xiè Fēi; born August 14, 1942) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, producer, film professor and film critic.[1] Xie was born August 14 in Yan'an city of Shaanxi Province, China and went to primary school and high school in Beijing. In high school he began to love drama and cinema. He wrote journals after watching films and played roles in school theater group. In 1960 he was enrolled in Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy, and graduated in 1965. Xie Fei has taught at his alma mater as an instructor and professor since and was the vice-president of that institution from 1985-1989. Although he has not made many films due to The Great Culture Revolution (1966-1976) and teaching career, most of his works are critics' favorites. Several of them won international film festival awards. His A Girl From Human (1986) and A Mongolian Tale (1995) were commercially distributed American movie theaters. After Song of Tibet (2000) was censored for 6 months before releasing in a few theaters, he stopped making films (at the age of 59). He has worked as producer and on film festival juries in China and abroad. In 2001 he directed 23 episodes of TV drama Sun Rise adapted from a play by noted Chinese playwright Cao YU 曹禺(1910-1996). On December 15, 2012 Xie Fei posted an open letter on Weibo a popular Chinese Blog calling for changes of film censorship and won great support from film makers.

Known For

The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up
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Documentary about China's film industry and the monumental changes in the past 40 years from beginning with propaganda films to the "5th generation" filmmakers and beyond, who embraced art and commercial films to make China the second largest box office market in the world after Hollywood.

The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up

2018
Feng Shui
7.5

One of the most acclaimed movies to come out of China last year, Feng Shui harnesses the talents of underrated actress Yan Bingyan to deliver this family drama about a woman desperate to ascend to the middle class and willing to pay any price. Powerful and emotionally tense, this is a portrait of the hidden side of the great Chinese success story.

Feng Shui

2012
Evil of the Rat
5.0

Five Chinese young people go for an outing, encountering a little girl blocking the road for help. To save the girl, they got into a chemical factory and got involved in a catastrophe of mutant rats attacking human beings.

Evil of the Rat

2025
Black Snow
7.1

A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.

Black Snow

1990
A Girl from Hunan
5.3

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.

A Girl from Hunan

1986
Women from the Lake of Scented Souls
6.9

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

1993
Send Me to the Clouds
5.8

Diagnosed with ovarian cancer, a 29-year-old journalist who longs for true love ends up writing the biography for an entrepreneur's father, which leads her to embark on an existential journey.

Send Me to the Clouds

2019
Song of Tibet
8.0

The story of Yeshe Dolma, and her turbulent marriage to a proud warrior, Jiacuo, across half a century.

Song of Tibet

2000
Haixia
5.0

With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as fisher women and fighters defending their homes and the motherland.

Haixia

1975
A Mongolian Tale
7.0

Bayinbulag and Somiya are brought up, from a young age, as brother and sister by their adoptive grandmother. The three live happily in a yurt on the Mongolian steppes. Just before Bayinbulag is to leave for the city, to be trained as a vet, the grandmother suggests that Bayinbulag and Somiya should eventually marry. Bayinbulag, now training to be a musician, stays away for long periods of time without communicating with Somiya. He finally comes back expecting to marry her.

A Mongolian Tale

1995
The Fire Boy
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In 1950, Xiao Sun, a scout of the People's Liberation Army, comes to the mountainous area of ​​Zhawangzhai to track down a Kuomintang bandit commander.

The Fire Boy

1978
Our Farmland
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Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.

Our Farmland

1983
The Guide
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No description available.

The Guide

1979
The Sun on the Roof of the World
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Geological surveyors assist in the building of a geothermal power plant in 1970s Tibet.

The Sun on the Roof of the World

1990