Summer Palace (2006)
Yi He Yuan (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Unrated
- 2h 38min
- Drama, Romance
- 18 Apr 2007 (France)
- Movie
- 1 nomination.
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Cast
| Lei Hao | ... |
Yu Hong
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| Xiaodong Guo | ... |
Zhou Wei
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Xueyun Bai | ... |
Wang Bo
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| Lin Cui | ... |
Xiao Jun
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| Yihong Duan | ... |
Tang Caoshi
(as Long Duan)
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| Yu Hou |
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Ling Hu | ... |
Li Ti
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Chi Le | ... |
Woman
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| Chloe Maayan | ... |
Dongdong
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| Thomas Wingrich | ... |
Thomas
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Xianmin Zhang | ... |
Ruo Gu
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Directed by
| Ye Lou | ||
Written by
| Ye Lou | ... | () |
| Yingli Ma | ... | () |
| Feng Mei | ... | () |
Produced by
| Helge Albers | ... | co-producer |
| Nai An | ... | producer |
| Sylvain Bursztejn | ... | producer |
| Li Fang | ... | producer |
| Ye Lou | ... | producer |
Music by
| Peyman Yazdanian | ||
Cinematography by
| Qing Hua | ||
Editing by
| Ye Lou | ||
| Jian Zeng | ||
Production Design by
| Weixin Liu | ||
Art Direction by
| Weixin Liu | ||
| Dorothee von Bodelschwingh | ||
Costume Design by
| Katja Kirn | ||
Production Management
| Régine Provvedi | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Meyean Chuo | ... | assistant director: Berlin |
| Lele Xu Le | ... | second assistant director |
| Yanjia Zhang | ... | first assistant director |
Art Department
| Jiao Zhiang | ... | props |
| Maria Schöpe | ... | property master (uncredited) |
Sound Department
| Kang Fu | ... | re-recording mixer / sound / supervising sound editor |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Konstantin Kröning | ... | Steadicam operator |
| Baoquan Li | ... | steadicam operator |
Casting Department
| Nicola Pehle | ... | casting: Germany |
Script and Continuity Department
| Yi Li | ... | script supervisor |
Transportation Department
| Zhiping Jin | ... | driver |
| Xu Lei | ... | driver |
Additional Crew
| Jan Kern | ... | assistant to director |
| Eva Simonet | ... | publicist: France |
Production Companies
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) (participation)
- Dream Factory
- Flying Moon Filmproduktion
- Fonds Sud Cinéma (participation)
- Laurel Films
- Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International (participation)
- Norman Rosemont Productions
- Rosem Films
Distributors
- Cinemien (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Festive Films (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
- Océan Films (2007) (France) (theatrical)
- Palm Pictures (2008) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Shaw Organisation (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
- Homescreen (2008) (Belgium) (DVD)
- Homescreen (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- TF1 Vidéo (2008) (France) (DVD)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Continental Media Assurances (insurance)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
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. Protests collapse, and Yu and Zhou lose each other amidst the social chaos and panicked crowds. Zhou Wei is sent to a summer military camp, and on his release moves to Berlin, fleeing both his country and memories of Yu. She finds a job, a lover, but can not forget Zhou. In Germany, social unrest is mounting: calls for freedom, demonstrations for democracy. A familiar story for Zhou. Weary, still haunted by Yu, he returns to China as the Berlin Wall crashes down. He finds her at last, in a small town. From evening to dawn, their future stretches before them, two changed souls in a changed world. Written by Anon |
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Box Office
| Budget | $2,500,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | In September of 2006, director Lou Ye was barred from making movies for five years because the film incorporated footage of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and wasn't screened for Chinese officials. The Chinese government also demanded that all copies of the film be confiscated. See more » |
| Goofs | There were no nightclubs or bars in 1980's Beijing such as the ones portrayed in Summer Palace. Despite the presence of a few underground bars in Beijing at that time, it is highly improbably that any university students would patron such establishments. Moreover, those bars did not play American pop music, did not allow dancing, did not stock western liquor, and certainly did not admit foreigners. Any clubs or bars like the ones shown in Summer Palace did not begin appearing in Beijing until the late 1990s and did not gain popularity amongst middle-class college students until after the new millennium. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Features The 400 Blows (1959). See more » |
| Soundtracks | In Yeon See more » |
| Quotes |
Yu Hong:
I want us to break up. Zhou Wei: Why? Yu Hong: Because I can't leave you. See more » |