Summer Palace

Summer Palace

140 mins | Drama, Romance | May 18, 2006

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.

Summer Palace

140 mins | Drama, Romance | May 18, 2006

Summer Palace
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH, Norman Rosemont Productions, Laurel Films, Dream Factory, Rosem Films (F)
Original title 颐和园
Directors Lou Ye
Writers Ma Yingli, Mei Feng, Lou Ye

Cast

Hao Lei

as Yu Hong

Guo Xiaodong

as Zhou Wei

Hu Ling

as Li Ti

Zhang Xianmin

as Ruo Gu

Cui Lin

as Xiao Jun

Zeng Meihuizi

as Dongdong

Bai Xueyun

as Wang Bo

Duan Yihong

as Tang Caoshi