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name: "Zhao Dongling"
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fi1m_id: "zhao-dongling"
tmdb_id: 1998760
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T15:31:37.857873+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Zhao Dongling

## Identity

Zhao Dongling

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zhao-dongling
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zhao-dongling
- **TMDB ID:** 1998760
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998760

Writer. Born in Shandong, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** 赵冬苓, Dongling Zhao
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998760

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Eight Hundred*](https://film.one/film/the-eight-hundred.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Zhao Dongling (赵冬苓), also credited as Dongling Zhao, is a Chinese screenwriter and writer. Born in Rushan, Shandong, she graduated from Shandong Normal University. After administrative work from 1969, she began writing novels in her spare time and was seconded to the Shandong Film and Television Production Center in 1987.

Her screenwriting career began with the 1992 television drama *Earthly Bonds*. She is credited as a writer on the film *The Eight Hundred* (2020) and provided the screenplay for *Cow* (2009). Zhao has written numerous television series, including *Red Sorghum* (2014) and *Ordinary Greatness* (2022), and has received awards such as the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Screenplay and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Screenplay.

*Sources: zh.wikipedia.org, mydramalist.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Eight Hundred* (2020), Fi1m 64, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-eight-hundred.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Forging Justice* (2026), series, Writer, Creator
- *Sandstorm* (2025), series, Writer
- *Northward* (2025), series, Writer
- *Happiness Jun Cao* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Golden Trio* (2024), series, Writer
- *The Fearless* (2023), series, Writer, Creator
- *Lady's Character* (2023), series, Writer
- *The Story of Xing Fu* (2022), series, Presenter, Writer
- *The Eight Hundred* (2020), Writer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-eight-hundred.md)
- *Hunting* (2020), series, Writer
- *My Father & Daddy* (2019), series, Writer
- *Wild Rose* (2017), series, Screenplay
- *Red Sorghum* (2014), series, Writer
- *叶落长安* (2011), series, Writer
- *中国地* (2011), series, Writer
- *Reviving of Beichuan* (2011), Writer
- *南下* (2010), series, Writer
- *Cow* (2009), Screenplay
- *The Story of Xiao-Yan* (2004), Writer
- *5 Missing Teenagers*, series, Writer
- *Rolling World*, series, Screenplay
- *Winner*, series, Screenplay
- *Missing*, series, Writer

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