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Summer Palace

Where:

Chongqing Municipality Hubei Province Beijing

When:

The 1980s The 1990s

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.

Released in 2006 — 140 minutes

Genres:

Drama Romance

Languages:

German Mandarin