Night Inn (1947)

Original title

Ye dian

Directed by

Huang Zuolin

Genre

drama film

Country

Republic of China

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a rundown inn, a group of poor and desperate people live together and struggle to survive. The story shows their conflicts, passions, and small hopes in a harsh world.

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What happens

Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diàn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan. The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's 1902 play The Lower Depths by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the Cultural Revolution but were popular in the post-Mao period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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