Lou Ye’s SUMMER PALACE Controversy in Belgrade
December 1st, 2006 by Andre Soares
After withdrawing banned Chinese director Lou Ye’s controversial Yihe yuan / Summer Palace, Belgrade Authors’ Films Festival officials reinstated the film following widespread criticism and the resignation of Festival president Dinko Tucakovic, who told reporters he could not support censorship.
Summer Palace, a love story — with graphic sex scenes — set against the backdrop of the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, had been initially withdrawn at the request of the Chinese embassy.
As per a Reuters report, the embassy told the Serbian Foreign Ministry that Summer Palace had been banned in China and should not be screened in Serbia if both countries were to maintain good relations.
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