Pavement Butterfly

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Pavement Butterfly
Directed by	Richard Eichberg
Written by	Hans Kyser [de; fr] Adolf Lantz
Starring	Anna May Wong Alexander Granach Gaston Jacquet
Cinematography	Otto Baecker Heinrich Gärtner
Music by	Max Pflugmacher
Production companies	Richard Eichberg-Film British International Pictures
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	10 April 1929 (1929-04-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Germany United Kingdom
Languages	Silent German/English intertitles

Pavement Butterfly (German: Großstadtschmetterling) is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, and Gaston Jacquet.^[1] It was part of an ongoing co-production arrangement between Eichberg and British International Pictures.

The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin^[2] and on location in Paris, Nice and Monte Carlo. The sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Werner Schlichting.

A Chinese dancer in the nightclubs of Paris, becomes involved with a Russian painter and becomes his model. She is persecuted by a man named Coco, accused of theft. Later, in the French Riviera she is at last able to prove her innocence.

This is, after Song, the second^[3] of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.^[4]

Analysing the evolution of the roles played by Wong in her career, Mayukh Sen wrote: "Her subsequent films with Eichberg broke her out of the typecasting that she’d faced in Hollywood. In 1929’s Pavement Butterfly, she played a Chinese dancer who, despite the title’s suggestion, was more of a self-possessed vamp than a passive wallflower."^[5]

• Kapczynski, Jennifer M.; Richardson, Michael D., eds. (2014) [2012]. A New History of German Cinema. New York: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-58046-854-1.

• Pavement Butterfly at IMDb