Le drame de Shanghai

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Movie
Original title Le drame de Shanghai
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1938
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director GW Pabst
script Leo Lania
Alexandre Arnoux
Henri Jeanson based
on the novel Shanghai by Oscar Paul Gilbert
production Romain Pinès
music Ralph Erwin
Louis Poterat
camera Curt Courant
Eugen Schüfftan
Louis Page
cut Jean Oser
Louisette Hautecoeur
occupation

Le drame de Shanghaï ( German  "The Drama of Shanghai" ) is a French film drama by GW Pabst from 1938 with the Austrian Christl Mardayn in her only foreign-language cinema production.

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In the torn China of the 1930s, many people put their hopes in the nationalist Cheng, who is trusted to bring the country together. The Russian émigré Blonski, who goes by the stage name Kay Murphy, sings in a nightclub in Shanghai. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with little daughter Vera. But this wish is not granted to her, because her former lover Ivan, like her a Russian exile, forced her to work for a criminal organization called "The Black Snake". With Kay's help, they plan to murder that very Tscheng. At the time, Vera was housed in a boarding school in Hong Kong and knew nothing of Mother's dark past. Ivan, who is also Vera's father, returns to Shanghai one more time to turn the thumbscrews on his ex, Kay, and force her to cooperate. When the attack fails, the French journalist André Franchon steps in and takes Vera, who is also threatened, under his wing. She absolutely wants to support her beleaguered mother.

Production notes

Le drame de Shanghaï premiered on October 25, 1938. The film was never shown in Germany.

The film structures were created by Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne , the costumes designed by Georges Annenkov . Mark Sorkin assisted director Pabst. The camera work was done by Henri Alekan .

For some inexplicable reason, Christl Mardayn was named in the opening credits "Christiane Mardayn".

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