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Crows and Sparrows

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Original title

Wuya yu maque

Year

1949

Running time

113 min.

Country

China

Director

Zheng Junli

Screenwriter

Wang Lingu, Zheng Junli. Story: Baichen Chen, Gu Liu, Shen Fu, Tao Xu, Zhao Dan

Cast

Music

Wang Yunjie

Cinematography

Zhenhua Hu, Zhenhua Miao (B&W)

Producer

The Peak Film Industries

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

At a Shanghai apartment, Mr Hou, a Nationalist official, gets ready to move to Taiwan upon the imminent defeat of the KMT during the Civil War. Mrs Hou gives an ultimatum to the rest of the tenants to move out on behalf of her husband, who is the "owner" of the flat (he had opportunistically seized the building from the elderly former owner, Mr. Kong, during the Japanese occupation) and who is now planning to sell it. When the tenants discover this plot, they try to band together to keep their homes...

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Crows and Sparrows

1949

Zheng Junli