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| Traditional Chinese | 孤兒救祖記 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 孤儿救祖记 | ||||||
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| Directed by | Zhang Shichuan | ||||||
| Screenplay by | Zheng Zhengqiu | ||||||
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| Cinematography | Xu Shaoyu | ||||||
| Production company | Mingxing Film Company | ||||||
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| Country | China | ||||||
| Language | Silent | ||||||
'Sing-Song Girl Red Peony (simplified Chinese: 歌女红牡丹; traditional Chinese: 歌女紅牡丹; pinyin: Gēnǚ gōng mǔdān)
Plot
The prominent actress Red Peony lives with her abusive husband, supporting his expensive habits through her career. Forced by customary mores to remain in this unhappy relationship, she grows depressed and damages her voice. As her career suffers, her husband continues his spending habits, leading him to sell their daughter to a brothel when he runs out of money. Her freedom is purchased by one of Red Peony's suitors. The husband is soon arrested for involuntary manslaughter. Despite their history, Red Peony forgives him and campaigns for an early release. The husband, touched, begins to strive to become a better man.
==Production Sing-Song Girl Red Peony was directed by Zhang Shichuan for the Mingxing Film Company. It was based on a screenplay by Hong Shen.
Release and reception
Sing-Song Girl Red Peony is considered the first sound film to have been produced in the Republic of China. Its dialogue and songs were recorded to a phonograph, which was played together with the film during showings; many contemporary Chinese cinemas lacked the technology to properly screen films with integrated sound. It was followed on 24 May 1931 by the Youlian Film Company's Yu the Beauty. In subsequent years, silent and sound films continued to be produced simultaneously. Mingxing would only release its final silent film, Season of Falling Flowers, in 1935.
References
- based on the summary by Xiao (1998b)
- Xiao 1998b, p. 305.
- Xiao 1998a, p. 17.
- Huang 2014, p. 296.
Works cited
- Huang, Xuelei (2014). Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922–1938. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-27933-9.
- Xiao, Zhiwei (1998). "Chinese Cinema". In Zhang, Yingjin; Xiao, Zhiwei (eds.). Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. New York, London: Routledge. pp. 3–30. ISBN 978-0-415-15168-9.
- Xiao, Zhiwei (1998). "Sing-Song Girl Red Peony". In Zhang, Yingjin; Xiao, Zhiwei (eds.). Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. New York, London: Routledge. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-0-415-15168-9.
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