Hirschfield Series - Farewell My Concubine

(Chen Kaige, China, 1993, 171 minutes)

Douzi is a delicate young boy who is dropped by his mother, a prostitute, into the hands of Master Guan, the head of the Peking Opera in 1925. “It is one of those very rare film spectacles that deliver just about everything the ads are likely to promise: action, history, exotic color, multitudes in confrontation, broad overviews of social and political landscapes”––Vincent Canby,The New York Times. In Mandarin with English subtitles.