Project Detail

Song (Song. Die Liebe eines armen Menschenkindes)

Synopsis

After a dispute fuelled by jealousy, knife thrower John is stranded in an Asian port. There, he rescues the young Chinese woman Song from the violent clutches of two libertines. Deciding that she is the ideal partner for his act, they begin performing together at a vaudeville theatre. One day, John’s former mistress, the stylish dancer Gloria, turns up. John needs money to win her back, so he takes part in the robbery of a mail train and ends up losing his eyesight. He attributes all the good things that happen to him from then on to Gloria. But in reality, it is Song who has been devoted to him all along...
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Retrospective

Details

Year: 1928
Type of project: Features
Running time: 125 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Richard Eichberg
Producer: Richard Eichberg
Screenwriter: Helen Gosewish (script), Adolf Lantz (script), Karl Vollmöller (novel)
Director of Photography: Heinrich Gärtner
Composer: Paul Dessau
Principal cast: Anna May Wong, Heinrich George, Mary Kid, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Paul Hörbiger
Film Title Note: International title - Show Life
Film Image: Deutsche Kinemathek, © Heinrich Gärtner

Genre

Music Drama Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Germany, UK coproduction

Eichberg-Film GmbH (DE), British International Pictures (UK)

Sales Company

Beta Cinema

Gruenwalder Weg 28D
82041 Oberhaching - Munich
Germany

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