Pavement Butterfly

Original title: Großstadtschmetterling

96 minutes • 1929 • 6.0 Score

In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.

Richard Eichberg

Director