Jury member

A veritable star from the east, the irresistibly handsome Leslie Cheung is making his first visit to Berlin, though he washere last year, on screen at least, in Viva erotica. "My favourite roles were in Wong Kar-wai's The Days of Being Wild and Chen Kaige's Farewell my Concubine," he says. "Actually, I became a singer first and had the good luck to work with the best directors in Hong Kong and mainland China. I just finished recording a EP which will be released for Valentine's Day and for the past three months I've been shooting The Red Hot Lover in Shanghai with Ye Dai Yin. I started acting in the early 80s, in TV mini-series - now, we have to be more choosy, but I'm quite optimistic about Hong Kong after the transition, in spite of the economic recession."
Cheung has worked for John Woo and Stanley Kwan and his last Cannes entry, Happy Together, turned out to be a box-office sensation in Japan. "I was on the Tokyo jury and this duty should be very relaxed, compared with the tension of representing a competing film, although there are so many reporters hanging around. Personally, I think the oldies are the goldies - Doctor Zhivago, Casablaca - and I do enjoy the big screen."