Ling Zifeng

Ling Zifeng

Ling Zifeng (1917-march 2, 1999), formerly known as Ling Feng and formerly known as Ling xiangqiang, was born in Beijing. He is a director, screenwriter and actor in mainland China and graduated from Nanjing national drama school.

In 1935, he wrote and directed the one act drama prison, which was Ling Zifeng's first work of self editing, self directing and self acting in his school days. In 1938, the one act drama hanakou won the Lu Xun Literature Prize in Shanxi Chahar Hebei border region. In 1946, he took part in the plot film "heroes of labor in the border region". In 1949, he directed his first film "Chinese daughter", which won the "struggle for freedom" award of the 5th karlovi Farley International Film Festival and the second prize of excellent film of the Ministry of culture. In 1954, the plot film "spring breeze blows to the normin River" directed by him was released. In 1958, the movie "Chrysanthemum in the mountains" directed by him was released. In 1964, he co directed the plot film "prairie Eagle" with Dong kena. In 1966, at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Ling Zifeng was beaten into a "Gang" and sent to the "May 7th" cadre school for labor reform. In 1979, Li Siguang, a biographical film directed by him, was released. In 1984, he directed the plot film "border town", which won the best director award of the 5th Golden Rooster Award of Chinese film. In 1986, he directed the plot film "the story of horse iron leg". In 1992, he directed the plot movie crazy. Ling Zifeng died in Beijing on March 2, 1999 at the age of 82.

Character experience

Ling Zifeng was born in a scholarly family of Manchu in Beijing in 1917. In 1933, Ling Zifeng was admitted to the oil painting department of Beiping National Academy of Arts, and then transferred to the sculpture department. In 1935, he became the first stage art major student of Nanjing national drama school. In the same year, he wrote and directed the one act drama prison, which was Ling Zifeng's first self edited, self directed and self performed work in his school days.

In 1938, when Ling Zifeng passed through Wuhan, he accepted the invitation of Wuhan film studio as an artist in order to raise travel expenses; in the same year, he served as the director of the literature department of the Anti Japanese art team; in addition, he wrote and directed the one act drama hanakou, which won the Lu Xun Literature Award in the Shanxi Chahar Hebei border region.

In 1940, he served as the vice president of the fire line drama club of Jizhong military region. In 1944, he served as a teacher of Yan'an Lu Xun art school. In 1945, he served as a teacher of Art College of North China United University. In 1946, he began to be an actor of Yan'an film factory, leader of Yan'an field photography team, and director of Teaching Department of Northwest film engineering team; in the same year, he took part in the plot film "labor hero in the border region".

In 1947, he began to serve as the liaison of Publicity Department of Shijiazhuang municipal Party committee, director of Shijiazhuang film, drama and music Working Committee, general manager of Shijiazhuang cinema, and wrote the article "reception". reform. In the same year, he went to the front line with Cheng Mo, participated in the Yan'an defense war under the command of Peng Dehuai, and shot a lot of news film materials about the defense and development of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region and the northwest liberated area. The film material named "defending Yan'an and defending the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region" reflects the historical facts of the historical period from the withdrawal of the PLA from Yan'an to the turning of the northwest battlefield into the counter offensive. These materials were later incorporated into the documentary "red flag rolling in the northwest" and the short documentary "returning Yan'an to me".

In 1948, Ling Zifeng began to work in Northeast film studio, specializing in film creation. In 1949, he and Zhai Qiang jointly directed his first film, Chinese daughter, which was the first film of new China to win an award in the International Film Festival, and won the "struggle for freedom" award of the 5th karlovi Farley International Film Festival and the second prize of excellent film of the Ministry of culture. In the same year, he began to be director of northeast film studio and director of Beijing Film Studio.

In 1950, he directed the plot film "glorious family" starring Chen Ke and Huang Ling. In 1951, the plot film "Northern Shaanxi Pastoral" directed by him was released, which was adapted from the long poem "Wang GUI and Li Xiangxiang", and co starred by Liu Bin, Zhang Jiquan and Zhang Yun. In 1953, he directed the plot film "Jinyintan" co starred by en Hesen, Zhulan and qiqike, which tells the story of the emancipation of the serfs in a place called Jinyintan on the Qinghai Plateau; on January 1, 1954, the plot film "spring breeze blows to the Nuomin River" directed by him was released.

In 1955, he began to serve as the director of the literature department of the Anti Japanese art team, member of the Northwest Field Service Corps, member of the editorial and Directing Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei border district Drama Association, rural art tutor, and President of the rural art cadre training class. In 1956, his film "mother" was released. In 1958, the movie "Chrysanthemum in the mountains" directed by him was released.

In 1960, Ling Zifeng brought to the screen the film "red flag spectrum", which is regarded as a description of the revolutionary struggle of the peasants, and reproduced the magnificent revolutionary struggle in the northern rural areas in the late 1920s. In 1961, he co directed the drama film "spring thunder" with Lu Peng, starring Wei Bingzhe, Hua songru and Luo minchi.

In 1964, he co directed the plot film "prairie Eagle" with Dong kena, which was co starred by abdurahman awazi and nurnisha smayi. In 1966, at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Ling Zifeng was beaten into a "Gang" and sent to the "May 7th" cadre school for labor reform. In 1979, Li Siguang, a biographical film directed by him, was released.

In 1982, he directed the plot film "Camel Xiangzi", which is adapted from Lao She's novel of the same name. It takes Beijing citizens in the mid-1920s as the background. It tells the ups and downs of rickshaw puller Xiangzi's life and reveals the darkness of the old society. The film won the best feature film award of the 3rd China Golden Rooster Award. He was shortlisted for the best director award of the 3rd China Golden Rooster Award.

In 1984, he directed the plot film "border town", CO starred by Feng Hanyuan and Dai Na. The film is adapted from Shen Congwen's novel of the same name. It tells the story of CHADONG City, a remote town in the mountainous area of Western Hunan in the early years of the Republic of China. He won the best director award of the 5th Golden Rooster Award for the film.

In 1986, he and Han Lanfang co directed the plot film "the story of horse iron leg". In 1988, he directed the plot film "spring peach" co starred by Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen, which was adapted from Xu Dishan's novel of the same name. In 1992, he directed the plot film madness, CO starring Xu Qing, you Yong and Zhao Jun. In 1995, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of world film and the 90th anniversary of Chinese film, Ling Zifeng was awarded the best director award of China Film century award.

Ling Zifeng died in Beijing on March 2, 1999 at the age of 82.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Photographic works

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Award winning record

Character evaluation

Ling Zifeng is passionate, tireless and eager to shoot 20 plays a year, versatile and rich in artistic imagination, optimistic and comfortable even in the end, and even different in dress. In the history of Chinese film, Ling Zifeng may be a director with the most crazy dreams. Especially in the new era, it is often impractical and surprising. He is not only a real man, but also a child in the art world. He is simple, naive, romantic and understanding. Moreover, his films are permeated with a kind of human feelings. He praises women, eulogizes women and worships women. He likes truth, he believes in goodness, he loves beauty, pursues beauty and expresses beauty. His poetic and picturesque empty lens and his assiduous pursuit of the traditional aesthetic style of blending feelings and scenes basically run through all his films (review by Shen Dachun of Southwest University).

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