Farewell My Concubine

(1993)

★ 7.9 IMDb · 707 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1993

Runtime: 171 мин

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: 陈凯歌

Cast: 張國榮, 张丰毅, Гун Ли, 吕齐, 英达, 葛优, 雷汉, 童弟, 尹治, 马明威

Plot

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.

"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour timeframe.