Pavement Butterfly (1929)
- Original title
- Großstadtschmetterling
- Directed by
- Richard Eichberg
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Weimar Republic, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young Chinese woman living in Europe becomes glamorous but lonely among the nightlife and casinos. Her life changes when she meets a struggling artist.
understatedmelancholicbittersweetold-fashionedquietvisually restrainedobservationalromantic
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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