Pavement Butterfly

6.0
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 96 min
  • Premiere: 1929. April 9.

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.

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Anna May Wong

Hai-Tang

S.Z. Sakall

Paul Bennet

Tilla Garden

Ellis Working - Mr. Working[s daughter

Gaston Jacquet

Baron de Neuve

Fred Louis Lerch

Fedja Kusmin

Camera

Otto Baecker

Director of Photography

Heinrich Gärtner

Director of Photography

Directing

Sound

Writing

Adolf Lantz

Writer