Apart Together is a 2010 Chinese drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Wang Quan'an

Wang Quan'an

Wang Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991...

. It was nominated for the Golden Bear

Golden Bear

According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....

 at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival

60th Berlin International Film Festival

The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 11 to February 21, 2010, with Werner Herzog as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama Apart Together, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese...

 and won the Best Screenplay award.

Cast

• Lu Yan
  Lisa Lu
  Lisa Lu is a Chinese-American actress and documentary producer.-Life and career:Lu was born in Peking, China . Beginning in her teens, she was active in Chinese opera, or Kunqu, before emigrating to the United States...
  
   as Qiao Yu-e
• Xu Caigen as Qiao Yu-e's husband
• Mo Xiaotian
• Ling Feng as Liu Yangsheng

Synopsis

A former nationalist Soldier (Feng Ling) who fled mainland China in 1949 returns home to his family years later. But his wife (Lu Yan

Lisa Lu

Lisa Lu is a Chinese-American actress and documentary producer.-Life and career:Lu was born in Peking, China . Beginning in her teens, she was active in Chinese opera, or Kunqu, before emigrating to the United States...

) has a new common law husband and he has never met his son before.