1. Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, or usually known by his nickname Mui, is a Thai film director, screenwriter film producer and National Artist Performing Arts branch in 2001.
11 Facts About Chatrichalerm Yukol
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For Suriyothai as well as his 2007 historical epic, King Naresuan, Chatrichalerm was backed by Queen Sirikit.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol was a member of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol's uncle was Prince Bhanu Yukol, a pioneering Thai filmmaker.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol was sent to Australia for schooling, and from there he went to UCLA, where he graduated with a degree in geology.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol's minor was film studies, and he shared classes with Francis Ford Coppola and Roman Polanski.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol worked as an assistant to director and producer Merian C Cooper.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol was among the first of a new wave of Thai directors to produce films reflecting changes in society.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol personally showed the film to Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn and was able to persuade the dictator to let the film be released uncut.
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Chatrichalerm Yukol's films resist depicting any glamor, focusing on the poor, downtrodden working classes, such as Freedom of Taxi Driver or Song for Chao Phya and often with gritty action, such as Gunman, Salween, and The Colonel.
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Around 1999, Chatrichalerm Yukol embarked on the most ambitious film project of his career, The Legend of Suriyothai, a lavish production about a 16th-century Siamese queen, Suriyothai.