Qiu Haitang

1943
3 Std. 22 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuDuring the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is mor... Alles lesenDuring the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is moral and upright man. He takes the stage name Qiu Haitang and is invited to dinner by an adm... Alles lesenDuring the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is moral and upright man. He takes the stage name Qiu Haitang and is invited to dinner by an admiring warlord Yuan. He later meets Luo Xiangqi, a graduate of a female performance school.... Alles lesen

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The Shanghai film in decline

The opening is promising with the courtyard of children being trained in acrobatics by the opera troop, while the female impersonator lead bewails his lot now that local war lord Zhu has shown lecherous interest in him. Is this character the cinema's first degenerate? Anyway we're on the way to a corrective to FAREWELL to the CONCUBINE.

Unfortunately the plot soon veers into soap opera. The child of the illicit couple grows to be the actress playing her mother, raised by her disfigured dad. The odd moody shot resembles the director's MIDNIGHT SONGS.

The glimpses of Chinese Opera are unremarkable. The sound is like a US film of ten year earlier and the opticals are covered with white negative scratches. This one shows the lively Shanghai film of the thirties in decline but it's still better than more admired Chinese items of the day like THE SPRING RIVER FLOWS EAST.