霍建起拍摄了《秋之白华》、《萧红》两部以民国为背景的人物传记片。提起萧红生活的民国时代,霍建起有些羡慕:“那个时代的才子佳人都活得很自我、很潇洒,做每件事都那么轰轰烈烈,反而现在的人要保守得多。”“当时的知识分子比我们更具有先锋性,他们做事非常纯粹。如今的人太实际了,几乎没人能达到忘我的状态。那个时代的作家们,特别是女性作家是很有魅力的。像萧红这样的只是一个比较突出的例 Huo built up the ”autumn of Baihua“, ”Xiao Hong“ two to the Republic of China as the background of the biographical film. In the era of the Republic of China who brought Xiao Hong to life, Huo built up some envy: ”At that time, wit and woman are all living very self, very smart, doing everything so vigorous, but now people should be much more conservative." Intellectuals are more avant-garde than us, and they work very purely. Nowadays people are too real, and almost no one can achieve the status of selfless .At that time, writers, especially female writers is very attractive. Just a more prominent example