Directed by Cedric Gimenezssen and starring Pei Chunhua and Jason Clark, the World War II historical film "The Assassination of the Gestapo" will be released in the mainland this Friday, and this film has been set as R-rated in North America.
Judging from the information on the release license, the film will be cut by 20 minutes, from the original 120 minutes to 100 minutes, and it is speculated that some of the bed scenes have been deleted, as well as some violent scenes.
Based on true events, "Assassination of the Gestapo" is based on the "Operation Apes" deployed by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, telling the story of two Allied pilots who entered the Nazi occupation territory through airdrops to assassinate the leader of the Gestapo.
The film's female lead is Pei Chunhua, who also starred in "Vanishing Lover" Rosamand Pike, who previously starred in "Terminator 5" and "Rise of the Apes 2".
However, compared to this year's "Lost City of Z" was deleted by thirty-seven minutes, "Assassination of the Gestapo" with twenty minutes deleted can only rank second. With the expansion of the Chinese film market, Western films are increasingly entering the mainland, in addition to blockbusters in the simple sense, there are also films of different genres, different countries and different magnitudes of films pouring in, and under the current censorship mechanism, deletion is difficult to avoid.