The Last Emperor (1987)




John Lone, Joan Chen - The Last Emperor

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Peter O'Toole - The Last Emperor

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The Last Emperor

Joan Chen - The Last Emperor




1908: at the age of three, Pu Yi is chosen to rule the world's most highly-populated nation. As the years pass, he becomes a pampered prisoner in the Forbidden City, learning about the world outside from his Scottish tutor.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Last Emperor

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Jean-Pierre Frimbois
Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique
Alleur (Belgique), 1989

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 205-209 info

Reviews

Ian Nathan, The last emperor, in: Empire, nr. 251 (May), 2010 pp. 143 (DVD review)

The Last Emperor
China / Italy / United Kingdom / France 1987

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Year: 1987
Country: China
Italy
United Kingdom
France
Language: English
Mandarin
Japanese
Russian
 
IMDb: 0093389