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The Assassin
Beauty of the fight. A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China. The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history. Nie Yinniang returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyrany of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins“. Cannes IFF | Best Director 2015 BAFTA - Nominee | Best Film not in the English Language 2016
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Beauty of the fight.
A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history. Nie Yinniang returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyrany of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins“.
Cannes IFF | Best Director 2015
BAFTA - Nominee | Best Film not in the English Language 2016