Summer Palace
May 18 2006
•2h 15m
•Drama, Romance
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
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Hao Lei
Yu Hong
Guo Xiaodong
Zhou Wei
Hu Ling
Li Ti
Zhang Xianmin
Ruo Gu
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