Yan Xueshu

Yan Xueshu was born in Wuhan in August 1940, on the 5th according to the 2345 site. As a secondary-school pupil, he wrote and performed in a play that won a prize at an amateur competition in his city, according to the same site. He entered the directing department of the Beijing Film Institute in 1958 and was assigned to the Xi'an studio as script supervisor, then assistant. Sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, he returned to the studio in 1975 and directed his first film there. In 1986 he received the Golden Rooster for Best Director. He died on 19 February 2001.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaIn the Wild Mountains野山Yan Xueshu · 1985Cinema