Tian Zhuangzhuang

Tian Zhuangzhuang was born in Beijing on 23 April 1952, the son of the actors Tian Fang and Yu Lan. During the Cultural Revolution, sent to the countryside in Jilin, he joined the army in 1968, learned photography there, then was an assistant cameraman at the Beijing agricultural studio. Admitted in 1978 to the directing department of the Beijing Film Institute, he graduated in 1982. Kept out of the profession for nearly ten years in the nineties, he then produced the films of younger filmmakers, then returned to directing and teaches at the Institute.

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• CinemaThe Blue Kite藍風箏Tian Zhuangzhuang · 1993Cinema