Pavement Butterfly

Pavement Butterfly
Directed by	Richard Eichberg
Written by	[de; fr] Adolf Lantz
Starring	Anna May Wong Alexander Granach Gaston Jacquet
Cinematography	Otto Baecker Heinrich Gärtner
Music by
Production companies	Richard Eichberg-Film British International Pictures
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	10 April 1929 (1929-04-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Germany United Kingdom
Languages	Silent German/English intertitles

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.

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. However persecuted by a man named Coco she is accused of theft. Some time later on the French Riviera she is at last able to prove her innocence.

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Bibliography[]

• Kapczynski, Jennifer M.; Richardson, Michael D., eds. (2014) [2012]. A New History of German Cinema. New York: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-58046-854-1.

External links[]

• Pavement Butterfly at IMDb

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