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Shizi jietou = Crossroads / Star Production Company ; directed by Shen Xiling. Tianming = Daybreak / directed by Sun Yu.
LIBRA DVD 008 914
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Zhongguo jing dian dian ying hui gu
- Chinese film classics collection
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- College graduates--China--Shanghai--Drama.
- College graduates.
- Working class women--China--Shanghai--Drama.
- Working class women.
- Shanghai (China)--Drama.
- Shanghai (China).
- China--Shanghai.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (201 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Cinema Epoch, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Shizi jietou: in Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles; Tianming: Silent with intertitles in Chinese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Crossroads: Crossroads follows four recent graduates: Zhao wants to be a writer but is stuck proofreading; Tang wants to be an artist but is hired to dress windows. Xu has given up hope, while Liu has "gone north" to fight the Japanese. Zhao lives in a crowded boardinghouse with an annoying female neighbor. Unbeknownst to each other, the two meet on a bus and a romance develops. Daybreak: Perhaps more than any other director working at that time, Sun Yu consistently sought to portray the working class affected by feudalism and imperialism. In Daybreak, Li plays a villager forced into prostitution in Shanghai, while her lover (Gao) joins the revolutionaries. After she helps him flee the authorities, she is sentenced to death by a firing squad, a scene of devastating impact" -- Container.
- Participant:
- Shizi jietou: Zhao Dan, Yang Bai, Ban Lu, Yin Ying, Meng Sha, Ming Yi. Tianming: Lili Li, Zhanfei Gao, Congmei Yuan.
- Credits:
- Shizi jietou, cinematography, Yuru Wang. Tianming: screenplay, Sun Yu; cinematography, Ke Zhou.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion pictures in 1937 and 1933.
- Includes essays by film critic Andy Klein.
- Contains:
- Crossroads
- Tianming
- Daybreak
- OCLC:
- 124548911
- Publisher Number:
- 891514001238
- EPO1238 Cinema Epoch
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