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Last Emperor, The: Criterion Collection
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Bernardo BertoIucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards®, unexpectedIy sweeping every category in which it was nominated - quite a feat for a chaIIenging, muItiIayered epic directed by an ltaIian and starring an internationaI cast. Yet the power and scope of the fiIm was, and remains, undeniable - the life of emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cuItural and politicaI upheaval, within and outside of the waIls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Qing-dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparaIIeIed craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciIing personaI responsibility and poIitical legacy. |
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