Yuan Muzhi

Muzhi Yuan (Chinese袁 牧 之, Pinyin Yuán Muzhi, actually yuan Jialai; born March 3, 1909 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, † 30 January 1978 in Beijing) was a Chinese actor, screenwriter and film director.

During his school days came yuan with the theater into contact. As a college student, he was already playing on stage starring in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. From 1930 worked in theater groups left. In 1934 he went to linksaktivistischen film company Diantong, where he Ying Yunweis film Taoli Jie ( Plunder of Peach and Plum ) occurred in the same year, for which he had also written the screenplay. The film is critical of society and acts of the labor market conditions of the 1930s in China. In 1935 yuan Muzhi his directorial debut with Dushi Fengguang ( Cityscape ), a musical. Another important film Yuan in Diantong was Fengyun ernü ( Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm ) ( 1935), in which it is March of the Volunteers of either singer of film songs that became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China later.

After Diantong was closed on state intervention because of their left orientation, found a job at Mingxing 1936 yuan. After another movie as an actor and directed by Ying Yuan Yunwei Muzhi created the 1937 classic of Chinese film Malu Tianshi ( Street Angels ); he wrote the screenplay and directed. The main roles in the force today as one of the best films of the filmmakers of "second generation" film played the singer Zhou Xuan and Zhao Dan. During the Sino-Japanese War yuan Muzhi went with other filmmakers to Yan'an and continued his theater work left.

In 1940 he became a member of the Communist Party. Created under his leadership in 1946 in transforming the Manchurian Motion Pictures, the film studio Dongbei in Manchuria. After 1949 yuan Muzhi chief director of the Film Bureau in the Ministry of Culture.

Yuan was a delegate of the first National People's Congress and the Political Consultative third of the Chinese people.