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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.[1] It was part of an ongoing co-production arrangement between Eichberg and British International Pictures.
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| Directed by | Richard Eichberg |
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| Music by | Max Pflugmacher |
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| Distributed by | Süd-Film |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
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The film was shot at the Babelsberg StudiosinBerlin[2] and on locationinParis, Nice and Monte Carlo. The sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Werner Schlichting.
A Chinese dancer in the nightclubs of Paris, becomes involved with a Russian painter and becomes his model. She is persecuted by a man named Coco, accused of theft. Later, in the French Riviera she is at last able to prove her innocence.
This is, after Song, the second[3] of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.[4]
Analysing the evolution of the roles played by Wong in her career, Mayukh Sen wrote: "Her subsequent films with Eichberg broke her out of the typecasting that she’d faced in Hollywood. In 1929’s Pavement Butterfly, she played a Chinese dancer who, despite the title’s suggestion, was more of a self-possessed vamp than a passive wallflower."[5]
