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Pavement Butterfly (1929)

1h 36m

Running Time

Pavement Butterfly (1929)

Name: Pavement Butterfly
Genre: Drama
Released: 1929-04-09

1h 36m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Anna May Wong

Hai-Tang

Alexander Granach

Coco

Nien Sön Ling

Mr.Wu

S.Z. Sakall

Paul Bennet

Elwood Fleet Bostwick

Mr. Working

Tilla Garden

Ellis Working - Mr. Working[s daughter

Gaston Jacquet

Baron de Neuve

Fred Louis Lerch

Fedja Kusmin

Heinrich Gärtner

Director of Photography

Otto Baecker

Director of Photography

Richard Eichberg

Director

Hans Kyser

Story

Adolf Lantz

Writer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 9, 1929

Original Name
Großstadtschmetterling

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 36m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-04-28

Wiki.

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.