The Dream of the Red Chamber

Year: 1962

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Yuan Qiu-Feng

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Based on Cao Xueqin’s 18th‑century Qing masterpiece, this lavish adaptation is praised as the most successful film of China’s most read and repeatedly adapted novel. Three years of planning and a year of shooting produced a sumptuous, critically acclaimed work that captures the sprawling romance and remains a landmark of both literary and 1960s cinema.

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