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Summer Palace (2006)

Original title: 颐和园

2006-05-18 · 2h 20m · ZH
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Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom.

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Lou YeDirector

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Hao LeiHao LeiYu HongGuo XiaodongGuo XiaodongZhou Wei胡伶胡伶Li TiZhang XianminZhang XianminRuo GuCui LinCui LinXiao JunChloe MaayanChloe MaayanDongdongBai XueyunBai XueyunWang BoDuan YihongDuan YihongTang Caoshi

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What is Summer Palace about?

Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom.

How long is Summer Palace?

Summer Palace has a runtime of 140 minutes.