Pavement Butterfly
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| Directed by | Richard Eichberg |
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| Music by | Max Pflugmacher |
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| Distributed by | Süd-Film |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
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Pavement Butterfly (German: Großstadtschmetterling) is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, and Gaston Jacquet.[1] It was part of an ongoing co-production arrangement between Eichberg and British International Pictures.
The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin[2] and on location in Paris, Nice and Monte Carlo. The sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Werner Schlichting.
Synopsis
[edit | edit source]A Chinese dancer in the nightclubs of Paris, becomes involved with a Russian painter and becomes his model. She is persecuted by a man named Coco, accused of theft. Later, in the French Riviera she is at last able to prove her innocence.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Anna May Wong as Mah
- Alexander Granach as Coco
- Nien Sön Ling as Mr Wu
- Elwood Fleet Bostwick as Henry P. Working
- Tilla Garden as Ellise Working, Mr Working's daughter
- Gaston Jacquet as Baron de Neuve
- Fred Louis Lerch as Fedja Kusmin
- S. Z. Sakall as Paul Bennet, Kusmin's artist neighbour
- John Höxter
Production
[edit | edit source]This is, after Song, also known as Show Life, the second[3] of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.[4]
Analysis
[edit | edit source]Analysing the evolution of the roles played by Wong in her career, Mayukh Sen wrote: "Her subsequent films with Eichberg broke her out of the typecasting that she’d faced in Hollywood. In 1929’s Pavement Butterfly, she played a Chinese dancer who, despite the title’s suggestion, was more of a self-possessed vamp than a passive wallflower."[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Kapczynski & Richardson, p. 189.
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Bibliography
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External links
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- 1929 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Films directed by Richard Eichberg
- British silent feature films
- German silent feature films
- German black-and-white films
- British black-and-white films
- German silent drama films
- 1929 drama films
- British silent drama films
- Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
- Films shot in Paris
- Films shot in Monaco
- Films set in Monaco
- Films set in Nice
- Films set in Paris
- 1920s British films
- 1920s German films