"The Last Emperor" by Bernardo Bertolucci

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"Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, holds a curious place in the annals of history. As the final representative of the Manchu Dynasty, his place is secured in Chinese records as the very undramatic end to the imperial era. Pu Yi's essentially non-existent rule takes on a greater significance only because of post factum interest in the ruler as a person. Pu Yi is "The Last Emperor," the final imperial occupant of the famed Forbidden City, a man whose luxurious lifestyle as a child was replaced by the grey world of the gardener in Mao's Red China.
During the mid 1980s, Bernardo Bertolucci, an Italian film director of international repute and admittedly leftist leanings, sought - and won - permission from the Chinese Communist government to shoot a motion picture about Pu Yi inside China, indeed, inside the Forbidden City. With funding from Columbia..."

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