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Pavement Butterfly (1929)
Directed by Richard Eichberg
Drama · 1h 36m
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
Cast
Anna May Wong
Alexander Granach
Nien Sön Ling
S.Z. Sakall
Fred Louis Lerch
Crew
- Director
- Richard Eichberg
- Writer
- Adolf Lantz
- Director of Photography
- Otto Baecker, Heinrich Gärtner
Details
- Original title
- Großstadtschmetterling
- Release date
- 1929-04-09
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Germany
- Production
- Eichberg-Film, British International Pictures