Summer Palace (2006)

Summer Palace 2006 / 颐和园 2006 / 頤和園 , Yíhé Yuán , Yihe Yuan

‟The film was a Chinese-French collaboration produced by Dream Factory, Laurel Films, Fantasy Pictures and Sylvain Bursztejn's Rosem Films. It was made in association with France's Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères and Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). (...) The film deals with a young student played by Hao Lei who leaves her small hometown to study at the fictional ‟Beiqing University‟ (a homage to Peking University). There she meets a fellow student and begins an intense romantic relationship in the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The film also follows the eventual disillusionment of these young idealists after the crackdown, as the years progress through the 1990s and into the 2000s (decade). The film is named after the Summer Palace located in Beijing. (...)‟ - Wikipedia