Manchu Love

Directed by

Elmer Clifton

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film depicts a historical event in China involving Empress Tzu Hsi and Su Shun. It was made in the late silent era with a cast entirely of Asian descent.

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What happens

Manchu Love is a 1929 American pre-code Hollywood Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short silent historical fiction film short in two-color Technicolor. The film features a cast entirely of people of Asian descent and stars Sojin as Su Shun and Etta Lee as Empress Tzu Hsi. It was the ninth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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