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Center Stage is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Stanley Kwan with Maggie Cheung
Center Stage (1991)
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Add to a movie listCentre Stage (), also known as Actress and Yuen Ling-yuk, is a 1992 Hong Kong film, directed by Stanley Kwan.
The film is based on a true story: the tragic life of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu. This movie chronicles her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s. Actress Maggie Cheung portrayed Ruan in this movie.
Nicknamed the "Chinese Garbo," Ruan Lingyu began her acting career when she was 16 years old and committed suicide at age 24.
The film alternates between present scenes (production talks between director Kwan, Cheung, and co-star Carina Lau, interviews of witnesses who knew Ruan), re-creation scenes with Cheung (as Ruan, acting inside this movie), and extracts from Ruan's original films including her final two films The Goddess and New Women.
Maggie Cheung won Best Actress award at Berlin International Film Festival in 1992 for her delicate portraiture of Ruan.
^ "Yuen Ling-yuk" is the Cantonese transcription of "Ruan Lingyu".
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Stanley Kwan met en scène entre documentaires, interviews et images d'archives ce qu'était la vie de Ruan Lingyu, grande actrice du cinéma muet du Shanghaï des années 1920, que l'on aimait comparer à Greta Garbo.Actors
Maggie Cheung
(Ruan Ling-yu / Self)
Tony Leung Ka-fai
(Tsai Chu-sheng / Self)
Carina Lau
(Lily Li / Self)
Chin Han
(Tang Chi-Shan)
Lawrence Ng
(Chang Ta-Min)
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