He Qun


He Qun was a Chinese filmmaker. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, he was an inaugural member of China's "Fifth Generation" movement.

Early life

He was born in 1955 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Like many of his generation, his early life was thrown into turmoil by the Cultural Revolution. His father, an artist, was denounced as a rightist, and He was sent to the outskirts of Beijing where he did manual labor as a welder for six years. In 1978, He was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in its art department, and was assigned to the Guangxi Film Studio when he graduated in 1982.

Career

He's early career was as an art director, where he worked on many important films of the early Fifth Generation movement, including The Big Parade and Widow Village.
In 1988, he began his career in direction with the war film Mutiny. Since then, he has directed films of several genres, including gangster films, comedies and mysteries. In 1993, He found critical success with his rural drama Country Teachers, which won the Golden Rooster Award for best picture.

Selected filmography

As art director

As director

As actor