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Pavement Butterfly
Directed byRichard Eichberg
Written by
Starring
Cinematography
Music byMax Pflugmacher
Production
companies
Distributed bySüd-Film
Release date
  • 10 April 1929 (1929-04-10)
Running time
90 minutes
Countries
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
Languages

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

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

Production

This is, after Song, the second[3] of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.[4]

Analysis

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

  1. ^ Kapczynski & Richardson, p. 189.
  2. ^ "Großstadtschmetterling". Shot in Berlin.
  3. ^ "Kennington Bioscope presents Pavement Butterfly (1929) » The Cinema Museum, London". The Cinema Museum, London. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  4. ^ "A celebration of Anna May Wong in 6 films". BFI. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  5. ^ Sen, Mayukh (30 August 2023). "How Anna May Wong Became the First Chinese American Movie Star". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 14 September 2023.

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Films directed by Richard Eichberg
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