Scenes of City Life (1935)
1935 · Feature film · 99 min · dir. Muzhi Yuan
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
A novelist uses all his money to buy gifts for the woman he loves who in turn is also seeing a business man, using him for expensive presents. As a consequence the writer is unable to pay the rent, whilst the womans family goes hungry as her fathers business suffers. A joyful comedy that expresses the dangers of consumerism for the careless spender.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Muzhi Yuan
- Writer
- Muzhi Yuan
- Composer
- Ji Lü
- Cinematography
- Yinxian Wu
- Studio
- Diantong Film Company
- Released
- 1935-05-13
- Original title
- 都市風光
- Running time
- 99 minutes
Cast & crew
Muzhi Yuan Director
Xinzhu Zhang
Na Tang
Boxun Zhou
Wu Yin
Menghe Gu
Ruohong Cai
Lu Bai
Qing Jiang
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · questions regarding song between minute 3:00 and minute 4:00 · barbara lattanzi · 2009-01-04
Jeff, this is my first post to the archive. I am very interested in this film and find that qualities of the dialogue (accessible to me via your subtitle translation) have intriguing resonance to the odd spareness of the overall soundtrack itself. So I really appreciate your work on this film! The thing that I am most curious about, however, does not appear in your translation. The missing part of your translation is the section from approximately 2:45 to 4:00 minutes in the film: words being sung (and also - mysteriously - the words sung but "covered over" by humming) by the operator of a…
