Farewell My Concubine

Ba wang bie ji, feature film, 1993

DIRECTED BY: Kaige Chen

Farewell My Concubine

CAST:
Leslie Cheung (Cheng Dieyi),
Fengyi Zhang (Duan Xiaolou),
Li Gong (Juxian),
Qi Lu

SCRIPT:
Bik-Wa Lei,
Wei Lu,
Lillian Lee (prema vlastitom romanu)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Changwei Gu

Synopsis:
This is a story about two friends and professional collaborators. During fifty years of political turmoil in China, we follow their life stories. The two friends, Dieyi and Xiaolou, have been together since childhood, when they were trained in the Chinese Opera. Later they perform together on stage, one specializing in female roles and the other in those of emperors and warriors. Privately, their relationship will be shaken when Xiaolou starts seeing a woman.

color, 171 minuta