"Da Ming Palace"

Still photo of the movie, "Da Ming Palace" [Photo: chinesefilms.cn]

Director/screenplay Jin Tiemu:

Main works including: The revival of the Legion, Summer Palace, Xuan Zang on the road Graduated and got master degree on film study from Beijing Film Academy, acclaimed director of CCTV. Ji Tiemu directed TV documentary "Revival of the Legion" in 2004, which took as high as nearly 2% ratings when broadcasting on CCTV, and replayed for several times for the request of audiences. According to a rough statistic, 100 million people in china have watched this documentary. A milestone as commented by insiders, "the revival of the legion" also achieved a big commercial success. The Discover Channel took its distribution right and sold more than 170 territories worldwide.

Following "Revival of Legion", Ji's "The Old Summer Palace" turned out to be another hit for china's documentary film category in recent years, the full-length documentary represents the livelihood of the royals, the relevant history events occurred in this place and the glorious prosperity by using digital technique. A mix of ancient paintings, documents and files as well as documentary approach to shooting of relics of the palace, this film depicts the whole process from construction, glory to eventual destruction of the palace. "The Old Summer Palace" is a unique documentary film which differs from traditional documentary. "The Old Summer Palace" hit box office with more than five million in China, which broke the national record for documentary film, and it made more than a thousand film copies, this has never happened before for documentary film in China. "The Old Summer Palace" has even reached the level of commercial focused film.