16 Chinese films with a Cannes Award
china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Zhou Jing, May 15, 2014 Adjust font size:
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| "The Emperor and the Assassin" by Chen Kaige won the Technical Prize in Cannes in 1999. [File photo] |
About the film:
The film covers a great deal of Ying Zheng's life, from his early life as a hostage to his dominance over China, and depicts him essentially as an idealist seeking to impose a peace or unity on the world and defeated by various betrayals and losses.
