Early cinema of China can be characterized by the famous phrase “simple and tasteful”. Minimum scenery and landscapes, maximum acting, demonstrating mainly human relations of provincial China. This applies not only to social and family dramas like this tape, but also to entertaining films popular at the time. Here in the plot, two sisters, separated after birth, meet as adults, but this meeting has not become desirable, because now they belong to completely different estates.
Both sisters were played by actress Hu De, who previously became famous in the genre of waxia (fantasy with martial arts), starring in ten parts of the film “The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple” (1928-1930). Her star (under the English name Butterfly Hu) is located third on the famous “Alley of Stars” in Hong Kong after “Father of Hong Kong cinema” Lai Manwai and his wife Florence Lim. The role of the sisters’ mother was performed by Xuan Jinglin, an actress with a difficult fate (by the way, one year with Hu De). The creators of this film - writer and director Zheng Zhengqiu, cameraman Dong Kei - are considered one of the pioneers of Chinese cinema.
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