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CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1961 · CHINA

Zhao Fei

Formal, disciplined compositions of Fifth Generation cinema.

Born
1961
Country
China
Field
Cinematographer

KNOWN FOR

  1. 1991Raise the Red Lantern
  2. 1999Sweet and Lowdown

WHY THEY MATTER

Cinematographer of Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern and Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin; director of photography on three Woody Allen films.

THE LIFE

Zhao was born in Xi'an, the son of an architect, and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. He entered the reopened Beijing Film Academy in 1978 and graduated in 1982 with Fifth Generation directors including Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. He shot Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Horse Thief and Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern, and later Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin. Woody Allen, who had admired Raise the Red Lantern, hired him for three films beginning with Sweet and Lowdown.

Source: Wikipedia

Also born 1960 on

Helene Louvart

born 1964 · France · Cinematographer

Helene Louvart

Intimate, textured film naturalism for European and international directors.

Happy as Lazzaro, 2018Source: Wikipedia