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The Migration Act (1926)
Directed by Wang Yuan-Long
Drama · 1h 20m
This partially-extant silent film focuses on the lives of people in rural China during the early twentieth century. Wang Guisheng (played by Wang Yuanlong) is an orphan who grew up at his uncle's, working as a farmhand. Since childhood, he has been close with his female cousin, Li Ah Zhen (played by Li Minghui), and they expect to marry. But when her mother dies of illness and overwork, Ah Zhen's father re-marries, and the evil stepmother connives to marry Ah Zhen off to the stepmother's nephew. Then a government representative comes to the village recruiting peasants to establish a new settlement on the borderlands, she persuades the despondent Guisheng to sign up. Guisheng leaves his love behind, only to find hardship on the frontier. Ah Zhen, who has fallen ill, is set upon by her groom on her wedding night...BUT the next morning his stabbed corpse is found in the bridal chamber and a body in a bridal gown is found down a well. WHAT HAS HAPPENED?!?!?!?!!
Cast
Li Minghui
Wang Yuan-Long
Wenzhu Zhou
Wang Cilong
Crew
- Director
- Wang Yuan-Long
- Writer
- Wang Yuan-Long
Details
- Original title
- 殖邊外史
- Release date
- 1926-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China