Wang Quanan

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Early experience

Wang Quan'an was fond of painting when he was young, and hopes to take it as his lifelong career when he grows up. In 1977, he accepted the arrangement of his parents and left school to work as a dancer in a song and dance troupe. From then on, he began to travel in urban and rural areas. In 1980, he began to take advantage of China's open cultural exchange activities to visit many countries. In 1987, he gave up the opportunity to study directing in Lyon Film Academy, France, and was admitted to Beijing Film Academy in the same year. In 1991, he graduated from Beijing Film Academy and was assigned to Xi'an Film Studio as director.

Acting experience

In 1999, he directed his first film "eclipse of the moon", which started his directing career. The film, starring Wu Chao and Yu Nan, won the international jury award of the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. on April 4, 2004, the director's plot film "Jingzhe" premiered in France. The film, CO starred by Yu Nan and Liu Yanbing, tells the story of a rural woman who still has a fantasy about the future after experiencing the double setbacks of life and love. It won the special award of the 11th Beijing University Student Film Festival jury. In 2007, he wrote and directed the biographical film "Tuya's marriage" co starred by Yu Nan and senger, which won the Golden Bear Award for best film in the 57th Berlin International Film Festival and the best film award in the 8th Chinese Film Media Award. He was shortlisted for the best director award in the 8th Chinese Film Media Award. In 2010, the family emotional movie "Reunion", which was based on the reunion of the relatives on both sides of the Chinese mainland, was selected. The film won the silver award for the best screenwriter of the sixtieth Berlin International Film Festival. He won the best director award for the seventeenth Beijing University Film Festival with the film. In November 26th, the self guided plot movie "textile girl" was shown in mainland China by Yu Nan, Cheng Zhengwu and Zhao Lu. Han, CO star, won the jury award of the 33rd Montreal International Film Festival. In September 15th 2012, the self produced plot movie "White Deer Plain" was shown in Chinese mainland. The film was adapted from Chen Zhongshi's novel of the same name and was selected as the main competition unit of the sixty-second Berlin International Film Festival. In the same year, it was the producer of the documentary "the general order", which was co directed by Tian Bo and Wang Miao Xia. judge of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on January 31, 2017.

Personal life

On April 18, 2013, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuqi went to Maldives to hold a wedding. On the evening of July 2, 2015, Zhang Yuqi announced her divorce from Wang Quanan in a microblog.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Take part in the film

Editing works

Supervised production

Award winning record

Character evaluation

From eclipse to Tuya's marriage to Bailuyuan, Wang Quan'an shows his unique shooting style (Tencent Entertainment review), and has strong documentary and highly concise drama (Netease Entertainment review). The films directed by him all have a more distinctive local style of hometown, that is, they have the flavor of "Xi'an land" in details (Dalian Evening News). He is more restrained than Zhang Yimou, and he is not so artistic. The whole tone of his films is dark yellow, a soft and warm color (Meng Jingping). In Wang Quan'an's films, it seems that women can always be the soul of the whole film (Sohu Entertainment review).

Character controversy

On the evening of September 10, 2014, Wang Quan'an was arrested and detained by Beijing police on the spot for suspected prostitution. In June 2015, Wang Quanan was released from prison after whoring and had dinner with Zhang Yuqi for two consecutive nights.