PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY(1929)Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach & Nien Soen Ling |Drama | B&W| Retro Movie

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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. It was part of an ongoing co-production arrangement between Eichberg and British International Pictures.

The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Paris, Nice and Monte Carlo. The sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Werner Schlichting.

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Anna May Wong as Mah
Alexander Granach as Coco
Nien Sön Ling as Mr Wu
Elwood Fleet Bostwick as Henry P. Working
Tilla Garden as Ellise Working, Mr Working's daughter
Gaston Jacquet as Baron de Neuve
Fred Louis Lerch as Fedja Kusmin
S. Z. Sakall as Paul Bennet, Kusmin's artist neighbour
John Höxter

Directed by: Richard Eichberg
Written by: Hans Kyser, Adolf Lantz
Starring: Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Gaston Jacquet
Cinematography: Otto Baecker, Heinrich Gärtner
Music by: Max Pflugmacher

Production Companies: Richard Eichberg-Film, British International Pictures
Distributed by: Süd-Film

Release Date: 10 April 1929
Running Time: 90 minutes
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Languages: Silent, German/English intertitles