Pavement Butterfly

Movie · 1h 36m

Starring Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Nien Sön Ling, S.Z. Sakall

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.