Most Popular Zhao Dan Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
The Classic for Girls Trailer (1934)
09 October 1934
A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career.
Twin Sisters Trailer (1934)
13 February 1934
Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of her sister, now the pampered wife of a warlord general.
The Winter of Three Hairs Trailer (1949)
01 December 1949
San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy struggling with life in Shanghai.
Rhapsody of Happiness Trailer (1947)
01 November 1947
Wang, a bankrupt farmer joins his cousin, Wu, in Shanghai, but finds that he is poor too. One day, Wu stops a woman - Zhang, a drug runner - from being run down by a car, and is hospitalized.
Crossroads Trailer (1937)
13 April 1937
Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it.
For Peace Trailer (1956)
01 October 1956
A professor of East China University and his family become supporters of the Communists after America supports the Nationalists.
The Life of Wu Xun Trailer (1951)
21 February 1951
The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.
Street Angel Trailer (1937)
24 July 1937
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
Red Crag Trailer (1965)
01 January 1965
A taut wartime thriller, Red Crag: Life in Eternal Flame anticipates the paranoia and violence of the imminent Cultural Revolution while harking back to the aesthetic splendour of the Golden Age Shanghai cinema of the late 1940s.
Far Away Love Trailer (1948)
18 January 1948
After a break-up, a college professor, Xiao, molds his maidservant, Yu, into an independent, modern woman, then marries her.
Crows and Sparrows Trailer (1949)
11 January 1949
A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.
Li Shizhen Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
This biography film is based on the life of the real historical figure Li Shizhen.The story focuses on the social injustices suffered by Li as well as the difficulties he overcame in writing the famous Encyclopedia of Herbs.
The Opium Wars Trailer (1959)
21 August 1959
China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu emperor Tao Kuang is forced to take action that precipitates the 'Opium War'.
Soul of the Sea Trailer (1958)
22 March 1958
The sailors on a Kuomintang warship revolt, arrest their officers and defect to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Nie Er Trailer (1962)
30 April 1962
Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC’s national anthem.
Husband and Wife Trailer (1951)
02 March 1951
An absorbing example of genre filmmaking in the People’s Republic of China, Husband and Wife could at first glance be mistaken for any other romantic melodrama chronicling the rise and decline of a married couple’s love; here, though, that love takes place in (and is entirely defined by) a realm of political upheaval and Maoist ideology.
