Spring Silkworms (film)
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| Spring Silkworms | |
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| Directed by | Cheng Bugao |
| Produced by | Mingxing Film Company |
| Written by | Cai Chusheng Xia Yan Mao Dun (short story) |
| Starring | Xiao Ying Yan Yuexian Ai Xia |
| Distributed by | Mingxing Film Company |
| Release date(s) | 1933 |
| Running time | 96 min. (at 25 frames per second) |
| Country | China |
| Language | Silent with Chinese intertitles |
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Spring Silkworms (traditional Chinese: 春蠶; simplified Chinese: 春蚕; pinyin: Chūncán) is a 1933 silent film from China. It was directed by Cheng Bugao and was adapted by Cai Chusheng and Xia Yan from the novella by Chinese author Mao Dun.
The film tells the story of a family of poor silk farmers in Zhejiang province, who suffer hardship and deprivation when their crop of silkworm cocoons die off. The film criticizes not only the feudalistic and harsh market conditions that have forced the family into poverty, but of the family's own superstitions and selfishness.
The film stars Xiao Ying, Yan Yuexian, Gong Jianong, Gao Qianping and Ai Xia and was produced by the Mingxing Film Company.
Today the film is considered one of the earliest films of the leftist movement in 1930s Shanghai.
[edit] External links
- Spring Silkworms at the Internet Movie Database
- Spring Silkworms at the Chinese Movie Database
- Spring Silkworms at the UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based Learning Center
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