SUMMER PALACE
by Lou Ye
synopsis
It is the mid-1980s, and teenage Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her boyfriend to study at Beijing University. There she discovers a very different world, and falls passionately in love with fellow student Zhao Wei. But though their relationship soon comes to overwhelm everything else in their lives, the weight of history soon pulls them apart - their story, like those of so many others, overwhelmed by the massacre in Tiananmen Square.
international title: | Summer Palace |
original title: | Yihe yuan |
country: | France, China |
sales agent: | Goodfellas |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lou Ye |
film run: | 140' |
release date: | FR 18/04/2007 |
screenplay: | Lou Ye, Mei Feng, Yingli Ma |
cast: | Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong, Hu Lingling, Zhang Xianmin |
cinematography by: | Hua Qing |
film editing: | Lou Ye, Jian Zeng |
art director: | Liu Weixin, Dorothee Von Bodelschwingh |
costumes designer: | Katja Kirn |
producer: | Li Fang, An Nai, Sylvain Bursztejn, Lou Ye, Helge Albers |
production: | Rosem Films, Dream factory international (FR), Laurel Productions, Fantasy Pictures (CN) |
distributor: | Océan Films |