Movie Settings Database

Pavement Butterfly

Where:

🇫🇷 France 🇲🇨 Monaco

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.

Released in 1929 — 90 minutes

Genre:

Drama