SUZHOU RIVER

SUZHOU HE

By Ye LOU

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Drama - Completed 2000

LOU Ye's masterpiece restored in 4K: "A compelling story of love and obsession" -David Rooney, Variety

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2022
Berlinale Classics
Hong-Kong Filmart 2022
Il Cinema ritrovato di Bologna 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2000
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CHINA, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 79 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ye LOU
    • Producer(s)
    • An NAI (DREAM FACTORY), Philippe BOBER (ESSENTIAL FILMPRODUKTION)
    • Synopsis
    • A motorcycle courier in his mid-twenties is asked to drive the 16- year-old daughter of a smuggler. They fall in love, but when she figures out that he is kidnapping her for a ransom, she jumps into the river, and he is jailed for murder.
      After his release he meets a dancer: her alter ego.

      The 4K digital restoration of the original version of SUZHOU RIVER was realized in 2021 starting from the original 16mm a-b negative of the image from the laboratory Kopierwerk Babelsberg and supervised by Lou Ye himself.