Pavement Butterfly
MovieTitle | Großstadtschmetterling |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Apr 9, 1929 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Richard Eichberg |
Production country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Production companies | Richard Eichberg-Film GmbH, British International Pictures |
Run time | 96 min. |
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.