Hai-Tang/The Flame of Love (Eichberg/Summers, 1930): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 3.15pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Anna May Wong season at BFI Southbank. The screening of Hai-Tang on Tuesday 23rd September will be introduced by season curator Xin Peng.
BFI introduction:
Wong navigated the transition from silent to sound cinema with intensive
linguistic and vocal training, and thrived in the short-lived era of
multiple-language co-productions. In her first talkie, which tells the
story of a love affair between a dancing girl and a Russian lieutenant,
Wong speaks English, French and German in three different versions. She
so impressed with her German that some local audiences thought she had
been dubbed. This is the British version of the film.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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