Zheng Junli

Zheng Junli

Zheng Junli (December 6, 1911 - April 23, 1969), formerly known as Zheng Zheng and Qian Li, was born in Shanghai. His ancestral home is Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province (now pinglantianbao village, three townships in Zhongshan City). He is an actor, director and screenwriter in mainland China. He graduated from Nanguo art college.

In 1929, he took part in the drama Salome, which was his first stage performance. In 1932, he starred in his first movie "blood from the volcano". In 1935, he starred in the plot movie new woman. In 1937, he translated the first and second chapters of Stanislavsky's performance system theory, actor self-cultivation. In 1940, he made the documentary long live the nation. In 1947, he wrote and directed the plot film "a river flowing eastward". In 1949, he participated in the collective creation of the screenplay crow and sparrow, and directed the film alone. The film won the first prize of excellent film from 1949 to 1955 by the Ministry of culture of China, and won the first prize of individual. In 1951, he wrote and directed the plot film between our husband and wife. In 1955, he and Sun Yu directed the ancient costume war movie song Jingshi. In 1959, he directed the costume film Lin Zexu. In 1965, he directed the plot film "Li Shanzi", which was the last film in his life.

On April 23, 1969, Zheng Junli died at the age of 58 because he was persecuted by the Jiangqing counter revolutionary group. In 1979, a book on the art of directing, voice over, was published. In 1995, Zheng Junli won the best director award of China Film century award. In 2016, the complete works of Zheng Junli about his autobiography was published.

Character experience

In 1918, Zheng Junli entered a private school. Later, he studied in guangzhaoyi school and Lingnan middle school. In 1928, he entered the drama department of Shanghai Academy of Arts sponsored by Tian Han.

In 1929, he took part in the drama Salome in Nanguo society, playing a Syrian teenager in the drama, which was his first stage performance; in the same year, he initiated the "School Drama Movement" with Chen Baichen and founded the semimonthly drama magazine Modern.

In 1930, he performed Moliere's play "miser" in the "modern drama society"; in August, he participated in the organization work of the left wing drama League and drafted the action program "recent action program - Leadership Program for the white area drama movement at the present stage" together with others.

In 1931, he joined the League of left-wing dramatists and organized "Dadao Opera Club". In 1932, he joined Lianhua film company; in the same year, he co starred with Li Lili and Yuan congmei in the love movie "blood of the volcano"; in addition, he also starred in the inspirational movie "struggle". In 1934, he joined forces with Jin Yan and Li Lili in the war movie "road"; in the same year, he joined forces with Ruan Lingyu and Lin ChuChu in the plot movie "life"; in addition, he also played in the plot movie "kindness of flesh and blood".

In 1935, he joined Xindi drama society and amateur Dramatists Association; later, he co starred in the plot film "new women" with Ruan Lingyu; in the same year, he co starred in the family film "Tianlun" with Shang Guanwu and Lin ChuChu; in addition, he co starred in the plot film "Guofeng" with Li Lili and Ruan Lingyu. In 1936, he co starred with Chen JUANJUAN and Shen Fu in the plot film "lost lamb"; in the same year, he co starred with Chen Yanyan in the plot film "lonely city martyr"; in addition, his film history book "a brief history of modern Chinese film" was included in "the history of modern Chinese art".

In 1937, he translated the first and second chapters of Stanislavsky's theory of performance system, actor self-cultivation, and published in Ta Kung Pao with the title of an actor's notes. In April, he translated and published Richard poleslavsky's theory of performance system, six lectures on acting skills. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war, he joined the third national salvation drama team in Shanghai and served as the team leader. In the same year, he worked with Li Keng and Chen Jiansheng Yan Yan co starred in the plot film "loving mother song"; in addition, she co starred with Shu Xiuwen in the plot film "money tree".

In 1938, he co starred with Chen Yanyan in the plot movie "Yihai scenery II: Drama Troupe". In 1939, his paper on the Anti Japanese war drama movement was published. In 1940, he co starred with Zhang Ruifang and Wang Jue in the war movie light of East Asia. In the same year, he joined the Chinese film studio in Chongqing and served as the director of the news film department. Later, he began to shoot the Anti Japanese War documentary long live the nation intermittently in the Northwest and southwest.

In March 1943, his theory of performance system, actor's self-cultivation (Part I), was published; in the same year, he published his paper actors and roles in the journal drama monthly; later, he joined the China Art drama society. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai and served as a member of the editorial board of Kunlun film company.

In 1944, Zheng Junli learned that Zhao Dan, Wang Yi, Zhu Jinming and others were imprisoned by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang. After that, he wrote the article "what is the memory of people" and published it in the supplement "film and drama" of Xinmin Evening News. In June 1946, he participated in the organization of Lianhua film art society, and later served as a member and director of the editorial board of Kunlun film company.

In 1947, he and Cai Chusheng co edited and directed the plot film "a river flowing eastward", which mainly tells the joys and sorrows of a family during the great changes of China's Anti Japanese War; in the same year, his theoretical work "the birth of the role" was published.

In 1949, he participated in the collective creation of the screenplay crow and sparrow, and directed the film alone. The film won the first prize of excellent film from 1949 to 1955 by the Ministry of culture of China, and won the first prize of individual. In 1951, he wrote and directed the plot film between my husband and wife, starring Zhao Dan and Jiang Tianliu; in the same year, he wrote his thesis "I must remould myself.". In 1953, he directed the documentary "people's new Hangzhou"; in the same year, he directed the documentary "glorious creation".

In 1955, he and Sun Yu co directed the ancient costume war movie song Jingshi, which reflected the real face of the peasant uprising in western Shandong at that time. In 1959, he and Cen fan co directed the costume film Lin Zexu starring Zhao Dan; in the same year, he directed the biographical film Nie Er starring Zhao Dan, which won the biographical film award of the 12th karoway Farley International Film Festival; in addition, he directed the plot film rising sun.

In 1961, directed by you Jia, Shangguan Yunzhu co starred in the plot film "dry wood and spring.". In 1965, he directed the plot film "Li Shanzi" adapted from Korean drama "red propagandist", which was the last film he directed in his life. In 1979, a book on the art of directing, voice over, was published. In 1995, Zheng Junli won the best director award of China Film century award. In 2016, Zheng Junli's autobiography was published.

Personal life

On October 25, 1936, Zheng Junli and Huang Chen were married in the auditorium of Shanghai tianxianqiao Youth Association. After marriage, he had a son, Zheng Dali. On April 23, 1969, he was persecuted by the counter revolutionary group of Jiang Qing and died unjustly at the age of 58.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Take part in the film

Take part in drama

translation works

literary works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

In the movie crow and sparrow, the characterization, scene scheduling, lens processing, and even the use of details all reflect Zheng Junli's deep understanding and expressive ability of the film characteristics. He is good at the scene scheduling of the masses, distributing the characters in the front, middle and back scenes of the screen, and expanding the indoor and outdoor scenes incisively and vividly with the rise and fall of the camera.

Zheng Junli's artistic experience and multiple identities make his film creation full of more conscious exploration spirit. He boldly mobilized various means to explore the expression of film time and space, consciously and tenaciously explored the nationalization of film, and enthusiastically pursued the film language of the new era. At the same time, he can't get rid of the imprint of the stage, form a personalized image style, and experience the twists and turns of art with contradictions and difficulties in the changes of the times. Zheng Junli changed from a drama actor to a movie actor, directing a drama first and then a movie, so he has considerable practical experience in both drama and movie. His unremitting research in the theory of drama and film has enabled him to have a more conscious and in-depth grasp of the inheritance and differences between drama and film, as well as the characteristics of film. Moreover, Zheng Junli attaches great importance to the design and selection of film sets and scenes, and combines the modeling characteristics of space with scene scheduling and depth of field shots to interpret the film with a rich and vivid sense of space (review of contemporary film).

Commemoration of later generations

In 1984, the Zheng clan and their parents built a pavilion to commemorate Zheng Junli in Xiayang village, three townships of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. The pavilion has six columns and four corners with yellow glass tiles and a pointed roof. The pavilion is engraved with "Zheng Junli Memorial Pavilion" on its forehead.

On June 16, 2011, Shanghai Film Festival held the opening ceremony of the centenary retrospective exhibition of Zheng Junli's birthday in the special unit of "salute to the master"; on November 15, the activity of "commemorating the birthday of Mr. Zheng Junli, a famous film artist", sponsored by Shanghai Film Association, China film archive, Shanghai Film Group Co., Ltd. and funded by Shanghai cultural development foundation, was held in Shanghai Film City that 's ok.

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