i like this poster the best!
this movie will premiere @ Berlin Film Festival 2009
still no info when it will be screen in Asia but will keep u update ;)
Taiwan - 31st July 2009 (thks *hs* for the info)
EMPIRE OF SILVER
Director Christina Yao’s opulent feature film is a dynastic saga; it is also a passionate love story and a moral tale, based on historical events. The story of the Kangs, a family of bankers, and their banking empire on China’s ‘Wall Street’ spans a period from the Boxer Uprising to the Chinese Revolution and the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.
The film begins in 1899. A carefree, hedonistic young man is next in line to inherit a banking empire which has hitherto meant very little to him. However, following a tragic abduction, of which his sister-in-law was the victim, this ‘third man’ reluctantly bows to his authoritative father’s iron will.
Keen to prepare his offspring for the time when he will take over his financial conglomerate, this powerful banker, Kang, is determined to turn his son into as ruthless a businessman as himself. However, his idealistic son has always called into question his father’s high-handed style of leadership and hard-nosed business principles. The tense relationship between the two men is put under additional strain on account of Kang junior’s undying love for his beautiful young step mother. She was the first and only love of his life – before his father stole her from him. It is time for him to decide whether he will take the path his father trod before him or whether he will make his own way in life…
Berlinale Special 2009
The Berlinale Special is a part of the Festival’s official programme, and presents extraordinary new productions and topical works by contemporary filmmakers whose films the Berlinale wants to honour. The filmmakers of all the works in the Berlinale Special will attend the premieres and present their films.
So far 13 films have been invited to this year’s Berlinale Special; nine of them are world premieres.
Baiyin Diguo (Empire Of Silver) People’s Republic of China/Hong Kong
By Christina Yao
With Aaron Kwok, Tie Lin Zhang, Hao Lei, Ding Zhi Cheng, Lei Zhen Yu
World premiere
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the movie will show in taiwan on 31st July 2009!
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