The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)

Original title

Die Gefangene von Shanghai

Directed by

Augusto Genina, Géza von Bolváry

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama about people trapped in Shanghai. The story follows their struggles and relationships in a foreign and dangerous setting.

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What happens

The Prisoners of Shanghai (German: Die Gefangene von Shanghai) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Géza von Bolváry and Augusto Genina and starring Carmen Boni, Jack Trevor, and Bernhard Goetzke. The film's sets were designed by the art director István Szirontai Lhotka. It focuses on similar themes to the subsequent Hollywood films Shanghai Express (1932) and The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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