Song of the Fishermen

Name: Song of the Fishermen
Director: Chusheng Cai
Genre: Drama
Released: 1934
Duration: 57 min
Cast: Renmei Wang, Han Lan-Gen, Peng Luo, Congmei Yuan, Guanwu Shang

1934 Drama 57 minutes Directed by Chusheng Cai

About Song of the Fishermen

A fisherman's family lives near Shanghai. Twins are born, a boy and a girl, and grow up poor. They become friends with a boy their age from a rich house, the young master.

Cast & crew

More about Song of the Fishermen

Cai Chusheng wrote and directed the silent film for Lianhua. Nie Er wrote the music. Wang Renmei leads the cast. It runs 57 minutes and was released in 1934. It played 84 days straight in Shanghai. In 1935 a Chinese delegation took it to the Moscow International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention, the first prize a Chinese film won at an international festival.

Themes

Twins in a fishing family
A rich boy their own age
Shanghai nearby
Cai Chusheng
Lianhua
Wang Renmei
Nie Er
fishermen

Audiences

It played 84 straight days in Shanghai.

Music

Nie Er wrote the music. The title song is Yu guang qu.

Notes

Wang Renmei is the lead.
The Moscow mention in 1935 was the first international prize for a Chinese film.
The picture is silent, with Nie Er's score.

Awards

Honorable mention, Moscow International Film Festival (1935)

Scenes

The twins are born into the fishing family.
They take up with the young master.

Also available

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