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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.
Pavement Butterfly (a.k.a. Großstadtschmetterling) was Wong’s second German film with Eichberg. Shot primarily in France and set alternatively in Paris and Nice, the film featured Wong as Mah, a Chinese variety dancer.
Pavement Butterfly. 1929. Großstadtschmetterling. Directed by Richard Eichberg. 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.
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Overview. 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.
Rarely screened in the U.S., Pavement Butterfly (or City Butterfly) is one of a cycle of late silent films Anna May Wong starred in as an American expat. Wong had left Hollywood and its pigeonholing of Asian American performers behind for British International Pictures and the promise of lead roles with real meat to them.
Alexander Granach Cast. Adolf Lantz Screenplay. Hans Kyser Story. Otto Baecker Cinematography. Heinrich Gärtner Cinematography. Max Pflugmacher Music. Critics reviews. A dancer flees from a brutal clown and finds shelter with a young painter.
