Xie Fei

Xie Fei was born in Yan'an, in Shaanxi, on 14 August 1942; his father was Xie Juezai. He entered the directing section of the Beijing Film Academy in 1960 and graduated in 1965, taught there from 1978 and was its vice-president from 1985 to 1989. His pupils included Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang, according to Jonathan Rosenbaum. He directed his first film in 1983. In December 2012 he published on Weibo an open letter calling for a reform of censorship, which the profession widely supported.

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• CinemaWoman Sesame Oil Maker香魂女Xie Fei · 1993Cinema