Zhao Fei

Emerging from Xi'an as the child of an architect, Zhao Fei entered the reopened Beijing Film Academy in 1978, where he trained in cinematography and graduated in 1982 alongside the cohort that would define China’s fifth-generation cinema. His early work as director of photography included Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Horse Thief and Huang Jianxin’s Samsara, and a breakthrough came with Zhang Yimou’s Ra… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources