Fleeing by Night

Fleeing by Night

2000 · 119 min · ★ 6.1 · Drama, Romance

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.

Directed by Hsu Li-Kong · Written by Wang Huiling

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