What is the movie Farewell My Concubine about?

Duan Xiaolou (ZhangFeng yi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) are a pair of other disciples who grew up together. They are a man and a woman, and they have been working together seamlessly, especially Farewell My Concubine, which is famous all over Beijing. Therefore, they agreed to co-star Farewell My Concubine for life. However, their understanding of the relationship between drama and life is fundamentally different. Duan Xiaolou knew that drama was not life, while Cheng Dieyi did not distinguish between people and drama.

Duan Xiaolou married a famous prostitute Juxian (Gong Li) when he thought it was time to get married, which led Cheng Dieyi to think Juxian was a shameful third party and made Duan Xiaolou a traitor. Since then, the love and hate of the three people around Farewell My Concubine have escalated with the changes of the times, which eventually led to tragedy.

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On the set, Leslie Cheung doesn't have any extra requirements for life. Occasionally, he will invite the cast and actors to have coffee with him, if he finishes his work early.

Chen Kaige said that Leslie Cheung is an extremely diligent person. Before filming Farewell My Concubine, he lived in Beijing for half a year and concentrated on studying drama.

In this film, Leslie Cheung plays a Peking Opera actress disguised as a man. Leslie Cheung was so devoted that body double, a Peking Opera actor prepared by Chen Kaige, was useless in the end.

Judging from the novel Farewell My Concubine, only two actors-teenagers and adults-were needed, but Chen Kaige felt that it was not enough, so he chose a group of young actors, all of whom were from the Theatre Academy.