The Light of Maternal Instinct (1933)
1h 32m
Running Time
January 1, 1933Release Date
The Light of Maternal Instinct (1933)
1h 32m
Running Time
January 1, 1933Release Date
Plot.
Although Hui-Ying is now married to a husband that offers a life of stability and comfort, over ten years ago her first husband (Jia-Hu) fled from Shanghai to Nanyang (old name for Southeast Asia) to escape capture by a warlord - leaving her and their toddler daughter (Shao-Mei) behind in helpless desperation. Despite the mother's emotional attachment to her absent husband, she has never told the daughter about Jia-Hu so the daughter believes the stepfather is her biological father. But the mother begins to have second thoughts about the stepfather when she sees the teen daughter zealously follow the path paved by him - a path that the mother fears will lead to her daughter's moral decline.
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Cast & Crew.
Chen Yan-yan
Actress
Lai Cheuk-Cheuk
Hui-Ying
Jin Yan
Actor
Cho-Cho Lai
Actress
Guang Ren
Music
Bu Wan-Cang
Director
Wong Siao Fen
Cinematography
Details.
Wiki.
The Light of Maternal Instinct (also translated as The Glory of Motherhood) is a 1933 Chinese drama film directed by Bu Wancang, starring Lai Cheuk-Cheuk, Chen Yanyan, and Jin Yan. It is a silent film since it lacks sound for dialogues, but there is background music composed by Ren Guang. One of the songs was composed by Nie Er.
Bu Wancang is also the credited writer, but some scholars believe it was actually Tian Han who wrote the script. Tian Han had secretly joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1932 and was a wanted man by the Nationalist government for his leftist writings.
The film was remade in 1939 by Yueh Feng as Mother and Daughter (雲裳仙子).