Mother's Happiness (1926)
- Directed by
- Shi Dongshan
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- Republic of China
How it feels
A rural mother raises her four children alone after her husband dies in an accident. The film follows her struggles and sacrifices, showing that her life is far from happy despite the ironic title.
melancholicbittersweetslow-burndevotionalearnestfamily-focusedquietly tragicsilent-era
What happens
Mother's Happiness is a 1926 Chinese drama film directed by Shi Dongshan and written by Zhu Shouju, starring Zhou Wenzhu as a devoted rural mother who reared 4 children by herself after her husband died from an accident. It is one of the earliest extant Chinese films, but a portion is still missing. Like most Chinese films from this period, it is a black-and-white silent film with both Chinese and English intertitles. The English title is ironic, because the mother in the story hardly enjoyed any happiness in her life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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