Misplaced Pages

Pavement Butterfly

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
1929 film
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the German article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Großstadtschmetterling}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.

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 time90 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. 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 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 of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.

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."

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.

Bibliography

  • Kapczynski, Jennifer M.; Richardson, Michael D., eds. (2014) . A New History of German Cinema. New York: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-58046-854-1.

External links

Films directed by Richard Eichberg
Categories: