10/17/2014
AMC Empire 25
234 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036
The Golden Era is an upcoming Chinese drama film directed by Ann Hui and starring Tang Wei and Feng Shaofeng.Tang portrays Xiao Hong, while Feng plays Xiao Jun; both are two of the most important writers in 20th century China. It has been selected to be screened out of competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
Tang Wei plays famed Chinese writer Xiao Hong in director Ann Hui’s epic feature recounting her short life; from her childhood in the Heilongjiang Province to her final days in Hong Kong’s Repulse Bay. The love of the author’s life, newspaper editor Xiao Jun (played by Feng Shao Feng), and the inspiration she drew from him as well as the surrounding literary scene in creating some of China’s most enduring masterpieces is explored against the backdrop of a turbulent time that included the formation of the Chinese Communist government and World War II.
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