Chen Kaige

Chen Kaige was born in Beijing on 12 August 1952, the son of the director Chen Huai'ai and the screenwriter Liu Yanchi. A Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, he took part in an attack on his father, which he later regretted. Sent to work in the forests of Xishuangbanna, in Yunnan, he then served in the army. He entered the Beijing Film Academy in 1978, in the first intake admitted after its reopening, and graduated in 1982. In 1993 he received the Palme d'Or, shared, the first Chinese filmmaker to win it.

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• CinemaYellow Earth黃土地Chen Kaige · 1984Cinema