The Blood of Passion on the Volcano

  • Friday, Oct 4, 2019

    7 PM (95 mins)
    BAMPFA

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The Blood of Passion on the Volcano

(Huoshan Qingxie)

(Loving Blood of the Volcano), (Fire and Blood)

Sun Yu
China, 1932

Digital Restoration

  • Introduction
    Paul Fonoroff

    Paul Fonoroff is a film critic, historian, collector, and expert on Chinese cinema.

  • Weihong Bao

    Weihong Bao is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and film studies at UC Berkeley.

  • Zheng Dali

    Zheng Dali will be unable to attend this screening in person as originally announced.

  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
    Judith Rosenberg
featuring

Zheng Junli, Li Lili, Liu Jiqun, Tan Ying,

A warlord’s lusty nephew destroys a simple farming family’s pastoral idyll and sends its favorite son into tropical exile in Sun Yu’s delirious combination of Chinese peasant drama and Hollywood-style decadent island exotica. Brokenhearted after his family’s ruin, our hero (Zheng Junli) winds up in a South Seas hellhole seemingly borrowed from some leftover Lon Chaney film set, where saloon brawls, sleazy floor shows, and oblivion await him. A sultry dancing girl (Li Lili, in the Joan Crawford role) promises salvation, until the warlord’s nephew suddenly reappears—and that volcano starts to erupt.

Jason Sanders_old

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Sun Yu

Cinematographer

  • Zhou Ke

Language

  • Chinese intertitles
  • with English electronic titling

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • Silent
  • 95 mins

Source

  • China Film Archive