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The Shanghai Drama
Film poster
Directed byG. W. Pabst
Written byOscar-Paul Gilbert [fr] (novel)
Alexandre Arnoux
Henri Jeanson
Léo Lania
Produced byRomain Pinès
Marc Sorkin
StarringChristl Mardayn
Louis Jouvet
Raymond Rouleau
CinematographyCurt Courant
Eugen Schüfftan
Edited byLouisette Hautecoeur
Jean Oser
Music byRalph Erwin
Production
company
Lucia Film
Distributed byCompagnie Cinématographique de France
Release date
  • 27 October 1938 (1938-10-27)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Shanghai Drama (French: Le drame de Shanghaï) is a 1938 French drama film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Christl Mardayn, Louis Jouvet and Raymond Rouleau.[1][2] An exiled White Russian woman works as a cabaret singer in Shanghai to support her daughter through school. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location in Saigon in French Indochina.

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References

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  1. ^ Hal Erickson (2012). "NY Times: The Shanghai Drama". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  2. ^ Kennedy-Karpat p.132-33

Bibliography

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  • Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
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