Yuan Muzhi

Yuan Muzhi, born Yuan Jialai on 3 March 1909 in Ningbo, in Zhejiang, made his name as an actor under the nickname of the man of a thousand faces, then wrote for the screen and moved into directing in 1935. In 1938, he reached Yan'an and co-founded a film group there. After 1949, he was the first director of the Northeast studio, then of the Film Bureau of the People's Republic. Forced to resign in 1954, sent to a cadre school during the Cultural Revolution, he died in Beijing in 1978.

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• CinemaStreet Angel馬路天使Yuan Muzhi · 1937Cinema