The man who crowned a child watches himself become cinema royalty.
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci is interviewed on the British television series about his film "The Last Emperor."
Direction
Loader lets Bertolucci perform — revealing and calculated.
Production
BBC archival austerity vs. imperial opulence he describes.
Director
Kevin Loader
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bertolucci was the first Western director ever permitted to shoot inside Beijing's Forbidden City — a diplomatic coup negotiated through Italian producer Jeremy Thomas's persistence and a hefty location fee.
The interview aired in 1989, months before the Tiananmen Square massacre, making Bertolucci's optimistic claims about China's openness tragically, unknowingly dated.
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