Trailer Released for Berlinale Opener 'Apart Together'
2010-02-05 11:07:59
CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Xie Tingting
A trailer for Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan'an's family drama, "Apart Together" was released Thursday, a week before it opens this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
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A trailer for Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan'an's family drama, "Apart Together" was released Thursday, a week before it opens this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
The five-minute trailer sheds light on the tearjerker about which director Wang and the film's producers had been extremely low-key.
A retired Kuomintang veteran returns to Shanghai in search of his wife from whom he had been separated for decades after he fled to Taiwan in 1949. The veteran's plan is to find her and take her back to Taiwan. But the plan is interrupted when he finds out she has already established her own family.
The film stars Lisa Lu, Ling Feng, Xu Caigen and Mo Xiaoqi.
"Apart Together" will open the 60th Berlinale on February 11. Explaining the decision to choose the Chinese film as an opener, festival director Dieter Kosslick told Xinhua news agency, "One of the main subjects is families, different kinds of families, which is linked to German history because it's a reunion."
The film will also compete for the Berlinale's top prize, giving Wang Quan'an another chance to garner the Golden Bear following his 2007 winner "Tuya's Marriage".
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