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The Shanghai Drama

  • September 1938
  • 1hr

    35mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    G.W. Pabst,

    Starring

    Louis Jouvet,

    Raymond Rouleau,

    Suzanne Desprès,

    Valéry Inkijinoff

    ...

    A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...