Xie Fei

Directing

Xie Fei

Born

1942-08-14 (84)

Place of birth

Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Xie Fei (Chinese: 谢飞; pinyin: Xiè Fēi; born August 14, 1942) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, producer, film professor and film critic.[1] Xie was born August 14 in Yan'an city of Shaanxi Province, China and went to primary school and high school in Beijing. In high school he began to love drama and cinema. He wrote journals after watching films and played roles in school theater group. In 1960 he was enrolled in Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy, and graduated in 1965. Xie Fei has taught at his alma mater as an instructor and professor since and was the vice-president of that institution from 1985-1989. Although he has not made many films due to The Great Culture Revo…

Known for

The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up poster
NR

Documentary about China's film industry and the monumental changes in the past 40 years from beginning with propaganda films to the "5th generation" filmmakers and beyond, who embraced art and commercial films to make China the second largest box office market in the world after Hollywood.

The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up

2018

Our Farmland poster
NR

Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.

Our Farmland

1983

Evil of the Rat poster
4.3

Five Chinese young people go for an outing, encountering a little girl blocking the road for help. To save the girl, they got into a chemical factory and got involved in a catastrophe of mutant rats attacking human beings.

Evil of the Rat

2025

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls poster
6.7

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

1993

A Girl from Hunan poster
5.3

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.

A Girl from Hunan

1986

Black Snow poster
7.1

A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.

Black Snow

1990

Series credits

Behind the camera

Our Farmland poster
NR

Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.

Our Farmland

1983

Evil of the Rat poster
4.3

Five Chinese young people go for an outing, encountering a little girl blocking the road for help. To save the girl, they got into a chemical factory and got involved in a catastrophe of mutant rats attacking human beings.

Evil of the Rat

2025

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls poster
6.7

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

1993

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls poster
6.7

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

1993

A Girl from Hunan poster
5.3

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man.

A Girl from Hunan

1986

Black Snow poster
7.1

A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.

Black Snow

1990

Feng Shui poster
7.5

One of the most acclaimed movies to come out of China last year, Feng Shui harnesses the talents of underrated actress Yan Bingyan to deliver this family drama about a woman desperate to ascend to the middle class and willing to pay any price. Powerful and emotionally tense, this is a portrait of the hidden side of the great Chinese success story.

Feng Shui

2012

A Mongolian Tale poster
7.0

Bayinbulag and Somiya are brought up, from a young age, as brother and sister by their adoptive grandmother. The three live happily in a yurt on the Mongolian steppes. Just before Bayinbulag is to leave for the city, to be trained as a vet, the grandmother suggests that Bayinbulag and Somiya should eventually marry. Bayinbulag, now training to be a musician, stays away for long periods of time without communicating with Somiya. He finally comes back expecting to marry her.

A Mongolian Tale

1995

Song of Tibet poster
8.0

The story of Yeshe Dolma, and her turbulent marriage to a proud warrior, Jiacuo, across half a century.

Song of Tibet

2000

Song of Tibet poster
8.0

The story of Yeshe Dolma, and her turbulent marriage to a proud warrior, Jiacuo, across half a century.

Song of Tibet

2000

The Fire Boy poster
NR

In 1950, Xiao Sun, a scout of the People's Liberation Army, comes to the mountainous area of ​​Zhawangzhai to track down a Kuomintang bandit commander.

The Fire Boy

1978

The Fire Boy poster
NR

In 1950, Xiao Sun, a scout of the People's Liberation Army, comes to the mountainous area of ​​Zhawangzhai to track down a Kuomintang bandit commander.

The Fire Boy

1978

The Guide poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Guide

1979

The Sun on the Roof of the World poster
NR

Geological surveyors assist in the building of a geothermal power plant in 1970s Tibet.

The Sun on the Roof of the World

1990