Spring Silkworms (1933)
1h 40m
Running Time
January 1, 1933Release Date
Spring Silkworms (1933)
1h 40m
Running Time
January 1, 1933Release Date
Plot.
This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.
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Cast & Crew.
Ying Xiao
Old Tong Bao
Yuexian Yan
Ah Si's wife
Jianong Gong
Ah Si
Qianping Gao
Liu Bao
Bugao Cheng
Director
Xiaoqiu Zheng
Duo Duo Tou
Mao Dun
Writer
Zhengxin Wang
LI Gensheng
Media.
Details.
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Spring Silkworms (simplified Chinese: 春蚕; traditional Chinese: 春蠶; pinyin: Chūncán) is a 1933 silent film from China. It was directed by Cheng Bugao and was adapted by Cai Chusheng and Xia Yan from the novella of the same name by Chinese author Mao Dun.
The film stars Xiao Ying, Yan Yuexian, Gong Jianong, Gao Qianping and Ai Xia and was produced by the Mingxing Film Company.
Today the film is considered one of the earliest films of the leftist movement in 1930s Shanghai.