Directing

Cui Wei

Born — Died

1912-10-14 — 1979-02-07

Place of birth

Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

IMDb profile

Cui Wei (14 October 1912 – 7 February 1979), born Cui Jingwen, was a Chinese film director and actor. In 1962, Cui won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor as Zhu Laogong in Keep Red Flag Flying (1960). Cui Jingwen was born on 14 October, 1912 into a poor peasant family. He started working at the age of twelve. Cui was able to attend a school in Qingdao due to the help of a relative but was expelled due to his Communist political activities. In 1930, having briefly studied scriptwriting at Shandong Provincial Experimental Theatre, he organized the Seagull Theatrical Troupe and wrote stage play scripts. In 1932, he joined the League of Left-Wing Dramatists and traveled to the east and n…

Known for

7.4

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Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy

1963

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In a concerted effort to learn from Dazhai in agriculture, Shan Hua, a village girl, who sticks to the importance of rice leads the masses of Shitan to reclaim mountains, dig rivers, build dams and open up wasteland by overcoming natural disasters and unmask the hidden enemies' ulterior motives.

Mountain Flower

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Keep the Red Flag Flying

1960

7.0

In 1959, in the Kazakh animal husbandry production team of Dongfeng Commune at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang, the members elected their captain – Ayigul, a Kazakh female Communist Party member who loves the party and the collective and dares to fight against all evil forces.

Safflower of Tianshan

1964

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黄花岭

1956

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Red Rain

1975

Film credits

1960s · 1 titles

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Keep the Red Flag Flying

1960

1950s · 5 titles

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黄花岭

1956

The sailors on a Kuomintang warship revolt, arrest their officers and defect to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Soul of the Sea

1958

In the mid-19th century, at the height of the Opium War, the Chinese people rose up against the feudal system and the Manchu dynasty, which had capitulated to foreign invaders. ... With their heads bowed, peasants in chains trudge along, those who refused to give money to crush their rebellious brothers. Suddenly, their path is blocked. It is Song Jing-shi who has come to their rescue with his detachment. The freed peasants joined Song Jing-shi. This is how the core of the Black Flag Army was formed. The first historical film made in socialist China in the 1950s. The script is based on authentic material collected in villages in Shandong Province. Legends about the cruelty of Sen Gelinzin and the bravery of Sun Jing-shi, who is called the "Chinese Spartacus," still live on among the people.

Song Jing Shi

1955

6.0

A soldier finds his new role in the transition from war time to the construction era.

New Story of an Old Soldier

1959

6.7

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Wind from the East

1959

1930s · 1 titles

6.2

Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...

Crossroads

1937

Behind the camera

7.4

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Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy

1963

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Mountain Flower

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7.0

Safflower of Tianshan

1964

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Red Rain

1975

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Yang Female Warriors

1960

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Ping yuan zuo zhan

1974

6.4

Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is really about Communist revolution that won over the hearts and minds of Chinese youth.