Gefahr und Begierde

A Shanghai teahouse, 1939. A silk scarf slides from a man’s wrist as a woman’s gloved fingers tighten around it. A student actress enlists in a radical plot: woo a puppet official, then slit his throat with a blade hidden in garters. Lee’s wartime melodrama folds romance into betrayal like origami, edges dulled by candlelight.

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Ang Lee directed Gefahr und Begierde in 2007. See Ang Lee's full filmography, where to start with Ang Lee, or where to go after you've seen everything by Ang Lee.

Gefahr und Begierde was released in 2007 (ZH original-language production), with a runtime of 158 minutes.