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Peking Duck Restaurant (1990)

Peking Duck Restaurant poster
Directed by
Gu Rong
Genre
drama film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
2h 16m
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A Beijing restaurant owner buys a famous duck restaurant and hires chefs from the Forbidden City to create a new version of Peking duck. It is a partly fictionalized story based on real events.

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What happens

Peking Duck Restaurant er en kinesisk dramafilm fra 1990 regissert av Gu Rong. Filmen er en delvis oppdiktet historie om om en kjent restauranteier i Beijing som kjøper restauranten Quanjude, kjent for sin spesialitet: Pekingand. Han leier kokker fra Den forbudte by til å lage en ny variant av den kjente matretten. Hovedrollen spilles av Chen Baoguo, mens en sentral birolle spilles av Ma En-Ran. Den ble kåret til beste film ved Hundred Flowers Awards (delt med Dragon Year Cops og Jiao Yulu). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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