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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. Was the only Asian film selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in 2006. 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

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Romance

Starring: Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong, Xueyun Bai

Released: May 18, 2006

Runtime: 140.0

Popularity Rating: 0.946

China

Yu Hong Hao Lei
Zhou Wei Guo Xiaodong
Wang Bo Xueyun Bai
Xiao Jun Lin Cui
Tang Caoshi Duan Yihong
Dongdong Meihuizi Zeng
Ruo Gu Xianmin Zhang

Art — Art Direction: Dorothee von Bodelschwingh
Art — Art Direction: Liu Weixin
Art — Production Design: Liu Weixin
Camera — Director of Photography: Qing Hua
Directing — Director: Lou Ye
Editing — Editor: Lou Ye
Editing — Editor: Zeng Jian
Production — Co-Producer: Helge Albers
Production — Producer: An Nai
Production — Producer: Fang Li
Production — Producer: Lou Ye
Production — Producer: Sylvain Bursztejn
Sound — Original Music Composer: Peyman Yazdanian
Writing — Screenplay: Lou Ye
Writing — Screenplay: Ma Yingli
Writing — Screenplay: Mei Feng