Pavement Butterfly

Original title: Großstadtschmetterling
Duration: 96 min
Release date: 1929-04-09
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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.

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