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55 Days at Peking
Drama, History, War
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy old-school historical spectacle centered on siege warfare, multinational alliances, and stoic heroism under overwhelming pressure.
- Tone
- epic, tense, bittersweet
- Payoff
- adrenaline, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- survival, cultural conflict, colonial power, uneasy alliance, duty
- Setting
- early twentieth-century imperial China, besieged diplomatic compound and surrounding city
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