The Last Emperor (1987)

the extraordinary life of pu yi, the last emperor of china: from 1908 to the beginning of the maoist revolution. passing through the twenties and thirties, pu yi is first a playboy in exile, then a puppet in the hands of the japanese occupiers, finally a prisoner of the soviets in 1946. finally returned to china, subjected to a long period of 're-education', he died alone and melancholy, how he lived.