末代皇帝 - 溥儀 The Last Emperor (1987)

導演：貝托魯奇 Bernardo Bertolucci 　　 　　

電影史上第一部以西方觀點切入中國近代歷史事跡、由名導演貝托魯奇執導最具野心及氣魄的史詩議鉅獻《末代皇帝溥儀》捕捉了溥儀奇彩斑駁的一生： 　　 　　

1908年，年僅三歲的溥儀即位，是為中國最後一位皇帝，為時不足三年即隨著清朝的滅已而被迫退位。1924年，溥儀與皇后婉蓉與皇妃，一同被逐出他生活了十六年而從未離開過半步的皇宮－紫禁城。自此，溥儀過著花花公子般的洋化生活；直至1931年，由於抵受不住日本人提出讓他重新登基的誘惑，他作出了一生中最重大也最錯誤的決定－成為滿洲國的傀儡皇帝，令自己墮進一場無邊的惡夢，也令全中國陷入戰亂的苦難。1945年溥儀被俘虜至俄國，五年後被引渡回國，由共產黨判處死刑，結果卻在監獄中苟活了十年，於1959年獲赦免並釋放。當文化大革命展開，溥儀以平民身分重返北京作園丁。他終於呼到自由的氣味，直至1967年與世長辭。 　　 　　

Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE LAST EMPEROR was the first and most ambitious film ever made by Western film-makers about modern China . The film is also the intimate story of an extraordinary man and his journey of self-discovery. 　　 　　

Pu Yi , the last emperor , came to the imperial throne in 1908 at the age of three. The Son of Heaven , Lord of Ten Thousand Years was forced to abdicate at the age of 6 and thrown out of the Forbidden City in 1924 with his two wives and drawn into the life of a Western-Style playboy . In 1931 he succumbed to the seductive Japanese invitation to mount the throne again and became a puppet emperor in the Japanese controlled state of Manchukuo. Captured by the Russians in 1945 , he was returned to China in 1950 , expecting to be executed by the communists . Instead he spent ten years in gaol in the hands of an enlightened prison governor and emerged a changed man . He returned to Peking at the start of the Cultural Revolution and became a gardener , more free than he had ever been before . He died in 1967.