Private Project

Love - Rules

A teenage Belarus Orphan met a Chinese political hostage in Russia in 1935, they fell in love, married. 2 years later, they were released back to China when Soviet and China's diplomatic relation improved. When Republic of China's force lost to Communist China in 1949, Republic of China blame Soviet for supporting Chinese communist and cancel diplomatic relations with Soviet. Years later, her husband was elected as President, but she became an invisible first lady.

  • Shihyun Wang
    Director
  • Shihyun Wang
    Writer
  • Shihyun Wang
    Producer
  • James Chen
    Producer
  • Ceia Zhou
    Key Cast
    "Fanna"
  • Zen Won
    Key Cast
    "Nicolas"
  • Chris Weng
    Key Cast
    "young Nicolas & Xiao Wen"
  • Annie Shieh
    Key Cast
    "Nicolas' mistress Chang"
  • Sherry Liu
    Key Cast
    "Nicolas' Mom"
  • Peggy Hsu
    Key Cast
    "Nicolas' first wife - Feng, Ling"
  • James Chen
    Key Cast
    "General Feng, Nicolas' first father-in-law"
  • Ching Hsiu Chang
    Key Cast
    "Ms Japan Prime Minster"
  • Alfie Huang
    Key Cast
    "Japan Prime Minster"
  • Joanne Chung
    Key Cast
    "Nanny & vocalist"
  • Paul Li
    Key Cast
    "Wedding announcer"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    60 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 12, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Shihyun Wang

In 2015, a semi-retired CPA/realtor started a youtube channel, 5 years later, her two channels had 13 million views. Wishing to prove the original videos are not Tube junks, she sent a few late 2016. 5 years later, she got 960 IMDb awards including 8 Remi Awards from Worldfest Houston.

To overcome funding challenges every Indie filmmakers faced, she wrote, edit and produced most of her 500+ films. To prove training and experience comes in second after talent, she made documentaries, comedy, Sci-Fi, horror, musical, romance and even western. To prove we can still make meaningful films during Covid quarantine, she made films in Taiwan and remotely directed many films in USA in 2020. Her 24 films produced during Covid Pandemic won 14 Accolade Global Competition award , 16 Indiefest Awards, 9 Best Shorts Awards during quarantine between Jan 2020 till May 2021. .While 54th Worldfest Houston awarded her with 4 Silver and 3 Bronze Remi for 7 films produced in 2020 and 2021..

It is hard to walk this path, but "Best Film 2017" from Hell Chess Film Festival proved this is the route to take. Thanks for Mindfield, Pinnacle and Royal Wolf for giving me encouragement and support over the years. And thanks for Bare Bone festival for awarding me best produced documentary in 2020. It takes a lot for festival to award an unknown filmmaker top awards but 25th annual Indie Gathering gave 2 awards while 12th annual Socal Film Awards gave out 3 awards.

Thanks to my talented cast and crew. Thanks to the judges and viewers for liking our efforts. Filmmaking is magical, it took me to places I have never been before.

Add Director Biography
Director Statement

It takes a lot of guts to marry a political hostage, right? Especially in Soviet Russia. No one understood why she married a poor Chinese man with nothing, shorter than her, and can be taken out for execution anytime. Some even called her a Russian spy. But this beautiful girl devoted her entire life to the man she loved. I always wanted to cry when I think of her story, because many of us made choices we could not understand. And many of us stood by our choices despite the cost. Because the film is inspired by a true story you can verify on Wikipedia. I can't say it is based on a true story but putting myself in her shoes, I can fill blank of what may have happened on the blanks. From rare seen photos when she was 38 and 51, she showed the world how she maintained her beauty and grace despite years behind the walls.