Struggling
Alternate title(s): Striving, The Struggle
Foreign Title: Fen dou
Date: January 01, 1932 to December 31, 1932
Dates Note: 1932
Country of Origin:
China
Place of Origin: China
Languages:
Chinese intertitles
Color: B&W
Silent: Yes
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Curator Notes
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Zheng Junli: From Shanghai’s Golden Age to the Cultural RevolutionDescription:
The tale of a young woman’s battle against her bullying father expands into a rousing cry against all tyranny in Shi Dongshan’s strikingly fresh 1932 melodrama, recently rescued from obscurity thanks to a brilliant restoration from the China Film Archive. Chinese film icons Chen Yanyan and Zheng Junli star as the young woman and the bookish neighbor who helps rescue her, but the film’s scene-stealer is its elaborate set, a massive reproduction of a Shanghai apartment building created in the studio. A surprise hit at a recent Toronto screening, Struggling shows that Chinese silent film history has wonders still to discover.
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