Summer Palace (2006 film)
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Promotional Poster for Summer Palace
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| Traditional | 頤和園 |
| Simplified | 颐和园 |
| Mandarin | Yíhé Yuán |
| Directed by | Lou Ye |
| Produced by |
Sylvain Bursztejn Fang Li Nai An |
| Written by |
Lou Ye Feng Mei Ma Yingli |
| Starring |
Hao Lei Guo Xiaodong |
| Music by | Peyman Yazdanian |
| Cinematography | Hua Qing |
| Edited by |
Lou Ye Zeng Jian |
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Running time
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140 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin German |
Summer Palace (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán), is a 2006 Chinese film and the fourth feature film by director Lou Ye. The film was a Chinese-French collaboration produced by Dream Factory, Laurel Films, Fantasy Pictures and Sylvain Bursztejn's Rosem Films. It was made in association with France's Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères and Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). The film is the first from mainland China to feature the full-frontal adult nudity of both its male and female leads, though earlier films such as Xiao Wu (1998),Lan Yu (2001),Green Hat (2003), and Star Appeal (2004), have featured full-frontal adult male nudity.
The film deals with a young student played by Hao Lei who leaves her small hometown to study at the fictional "Beiqing University" (a homage to Peking University). There she meets a fellow student and begins an intense romantic relationship in the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The film also follows the eventual disillusionment of these young idealists after the crackdown, as the years progress through the 1990s and into the 2000s (decade). The film is named after the Summer Palace located in Beijing.
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