Long synopsis : China, 1989 Two young lovers play out their complex, erotic, love/hate relationship against a volatile backdrop of political unrest. Beautiful Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her boyfriend to study in Beijing, where she discovers a world of intense sexual and emotional experimentation, and falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Their relationship becomes one of dangerous games, as all around them; their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Lou Ye (SUZHOU RIVER; PURPLE BUTTERFLY) reveals a portrait of a place and a generation - China and liberated Chinese youth - as never seen before in the West. By turns lyrical and brutal, elegiac and erotic, SUMMER PALACE depicts a passionate love story and the struggle for personal liberty jeopardized by history and fate.

Cast

• Lei Hao, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui, Yihong Duan, Xiaodong Guo, Ling Hu

Crew

• Producer(s): Sylvain Bursztejn, Li Fang, Ye Lou, An Nai
• Director(s): Ye Lou
• Screenplay: Ye Lou, Yingli Ma, Feng Mei
• DP: Qing Hua
• Editing: Ye Lou, Jian Zeng
• Original Music: Peyman Yazdanian
• Set Design: Weixin Liu

• Original Title: PALAIS D'ETE
• Genre(s): Drama, Political, Romance


• Production company: DREAM FACTORY
• Production date: 2006
• Language: Chinese
• Duration: 140 min