Filmmaker · China
Sun Yu
Died in 1990
Sun Yu was born in 1900, in Chongqing, into a family of salt merchants from Zigong according to the University of Wisconsin. After Tsinghua, he studied at the University of Wisconsin, then photography and cinematography in New York, and screenwriting at Columbia. Back in China in 1926, he became in 1930 one of the directors of Lianhua. A film he completed in 1950 was the object of the first major political campaign of the People's Republic, and his career almost came to a halt. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, he died in Shanghai in 1990.