Shi Dongshan

Shi Dongshan (Chinese史 东山, Pinyin Shǐ Dongshan, real name: Shao Kuang; born December 29, 1902 in Haining, Zhejiang, † February 23, 1955 ) was a Chinese film director.

Life

He began in the 1920s as designers and performers in film. He made his directorial debut in 1925. By 1930 he had already directed several films, mainly from the action genre. For the film company Lianhua he turned in 1931 under the name " Tomsie Sze " romance two stars in the Milky Way ( Yinhe Shuangxing ) with Jin Yan. In the 1930s, Shi was under the influence of leftist filmmaker for cinematic realism and after the invasion of the Japanese in China to patriotic resistance films like Gongfu Guonan ( "Together to save the country " ) ( 1932), Renzhi Chu ( "In the beginning of man" ) ( 1935) and Qingnian Jinxingqu ( "March of the Youth" ) ( 1937). Shi then worked in a theater company in Chongqing. After the war he returned to the film metropolis Shanghai in 1947 and turned his most important film Ba qian li lu yun he yue (八千 里 路 云 和 月, four thousand kilometers below clouds and moon '). He is colored autobiographical and has the resistance against the Japanese occupation from the perspective of a theater group on the left. The protagonist of the film is the student Lingyu, played by Bai Yang.

For his latest film Xin ying xiong zhuang he nu ( " A tale of new heroes ", 1951) he wrote the screenplay and directed.

Shi Dongshan died by suicide.