KwanTeo Film Archive · Creator
Chen Bo'er
陈波儿Chen Bo'er (1907–1951), born Chen Shunhua in a Chinese merchant family in Chencuo Street, Anbu, Chao'an, Guangdong, was a key figure of the Chinese left-wing film movement, a pioneer of New China's cinema, and the founder of the Beijing Film Academy. After studying in Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Japan, she joined the Shanghai Art Drama Society in 1929 and became a left-wing film star: she and Yuan Muzhi co-starred in Plunder of Peach and Plum (1934), the first Chinese sound film, and she sang its theme song "Graduation Song". In 1935 she joined Song Qingling and fifteen others in petitioning for the release of the "Seven Gentlemen"; in 1938 she led the Women and Children Field Inspection Group across enemy lines in north China. She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1937, sponsored by Ye Jianying and Li Kenong. During the War of Resistance she went to Yan'an; in 1945 her advocacy helped found the Yan'an Film Studio, where she became China's first female screenwriter. She wrote and directed the puppet animation Huangdi Meng (The Emperor's Dream, 1947), the first puppet film of New China. In 1950 she established the Acting Art Research Institute under the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, the predecessor of the Beijing Film Academy, and served as its director; the film Zhonghua Nü'er, which she helped organize, won the Freedom Struggle Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — the first international award for New China's cinema. She was honoured as a "People's Artist" in 1951 and died the same year, on 10 November.
About the Creator
Chen Bo'er (1907–1951), born Chen Shunhua in a Chinese merchant family in Chencuo Street, Anbu, Chao'an, Guangdong, was a key figure of the Chinese left-wing film movement, a pioneer of New China's cinema, and the founder of the Beijing Film Academy. After studying in Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Japan, she joined the Shanghai Art Drama Society in 1929 and became a left-wing film star: she and Yuan Muzhi co-starred in Plunder of Peach and Plum (1934), the first Chinese sound film, and she sang its theme song "Graduation Song". In 1935 she joined Song Qingling and fifteen others in petitioning for the release of the "Seven Gentlemen"; in 1938 she led the Women and Children Field Inspection Group across enemy lines in north China. She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1937, sponsored by Ye Jianying and Li Kenong. During the War of Resistance she went to Yan'an; in 1945 her advocacy helped found the Yan'an Film Studio, where she became China's first female screenwriter. She wrote and directed the puppet animation Huangdi Meng (The Emperor's Dream, 1947), the first puppet film of New China. In 1950 she established the Acting Art Research Institute under the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, the predecessor of the Beijing Film Academy, and served as its director; the film Zhonghua Nü'er, which she helped organize, won the Freedom Struggle Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — the first international award for New China's cinema. She was honoured as a "People's Artist" in 1951 and died the same year, on 10 November.
陈波儿是中国左翼电影运动的重要参与者，新中国电影事业的开拓者，也是北京电影学院的创建者。潮安庵埠人，1934年出演《桃李劫》成名，1937年加入中国共产党（叶剑英、李克农介绍）。抗战期间赴延安，1950年创建中央文化部电影局表演艺术研究所，即北京电影学院前身。
Works
Not yet archived: 《皇帝梦》（1947，编导，新中国第一部木偶片，中国木偶片/动画片开创之作）; 《光芒万丈》（1949，编剧）; 《一贯害人道》（1952，与颜一烟合写，执意不署名）; 《中华女儿》（1949，组织参与，1950 年获卡罗维发利国际电影节自由奋斗奖——新中国电影第一枚国际奖牌）