Xie Tieli

Xie Tieli

1925-12-27
89 (2015-06-19)
Huaiyin, Jiangsu province, China

Xie Tieli (27 December 1925 – 19 June 2015) was a Chinese director. In 2011, China Film Directors Guild Award awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Huaiyin, Jiangsu province, China

Xie Tieli (27 December 1925 – 19 June 2015) was a Chinese director. In 2011, China Film Directors Guild Award awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Early Spring 1963 (7.8)

An idealistic youth moves to the countryside in search of a purer, more honest society, but finds injustice even in his remote village.
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Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy 1970 (5)

Taking Tiger Mountain was the very first model film produced during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Set during the civil war in 1946, it follows a detachment of the People's Liberation Army in Mandchuria as they are fighting a group of bandits hiding in the mountains. Based on a novel from the 50s, Taking Tiger Mountain was first a revolutionary opera before being made into film by director Xie Tieli.
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Haixia 1975 (5)

With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as fisher women and fighters defending their homes and the motherland.