Crows and Sparrows Movie Review 1949

Poor tenants of a Shanghai boardinghouse are about to lose their home when their greedy landlord decides to sell and move to Taiwan. But the advancing Red Army causes a change in plans and they're saved! Sounds politically turgid but isn't, thanks to naturalistic acting and dialog. Completed just before the revolution, the film was censored by the Nationalist Kuomintang government but cuts were restored when the Communists came to power. Mandarin with subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 108 minutes.
Originally from Chinese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Hard Knock Life, China

Screenplay

Zhao Dan, Zheng Junli

Cast

Zhao Dan, Wu Yin, Wei Heling, Sun Dao-Lin, Li Tianji, Ouyang Yunzhu

Cinematography

Miao Zhenhua, Hu Zhenhua

Director

Zheng Junli

Music

Wang Yunjie