Film
Pavement Butterfly
1929Directed by Richard Eichberg
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
About Pavement Butterfly
- Drama
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Richard Eichberg
- Writers
- Hans Kyser
- Adolf Lantz
- Original title
- Großstadtschmetterling
