Spring Silkworms

60 %|Jan 1, 1933|Drama

This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.

Featured Crew

Yan Xia

Adaptation

Bugao Cheng

Director

Mao Dun

Novel

Wang Shizhen

Director of Photography

Han Huang

Editor

Tianya Dong

Set Decoration

Zhaozhang He

Sound

Cast

Old Tong Bao

Ah Si's wife

Ah Si

Liu Bao

He Hua (Lotus)

Duo Duo Tou

LI Gensheng

Miss

Gentleman

Xiao Bao