Prince of Tears
- Original title
- Lei wangzi (Prince of Tears)
- Year
- 2009
- Running time
- 122 min.
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Fan Chih-Wei
- Terri Kwan
- Joseph Chang
- Kenneth Tsang
- Zhu Xuan
- Jack Kao
- Lin Yo-Wei
- Po-hsuan Li
- Pei-han Tsai
- Lisa Chiao
- Her Jung
- Yonfan
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Hong Kong-China-Taiwan;
- Genre
- Drama | 1950s. Epic film
- Synopsis
- It happened in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror, when an anti-Communist campaign swept the island and in a hysteria reigned. On one autumn afternoon, two young sisters return from school to find their once-happy home ransacked by military police and their parents arrested and accused of being Communist spies. The film follows a quartet of characters—the dashing air force officer father, his beautiful devoted wife, a mysterious scar-faced bureaucrat and a general’s glamorous wife. Their lives and loves intertwine until everything erupts in a rhapsody. Amid life in that turbulent era, friendship, passion, high-minded ideals and dignity are all put on trial in the courtroom of human desire.
- Awards
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2009: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection
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