Death_Over_Shanghai

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Death Over Shanghai

1932 film

Death Over Shanghai (German: Tod über Shanghai) is a 1932 German thriller film directed by Rolf Randolf and starring Gerda Maurus, Else Elster and Theodor Loos. The Chinese Ministry of Education requested[when?] that the German government have the film destroyed because they had received reports that it "ridiculed China and the Chinese people".[1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter. Location filming took place on the Halligen of the North Sea.

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Lu p. 41–42

Bibliography

  • Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-Peng (1997). Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1845-6. - Read online, registration required


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