Rhapsody of Happiness (Chinese: 幸福狂想曲; pinyin: Xìngfú Kuángxiǎngqǔ) is a Chinese film directed by Chen Liting and written by Chen Baichen. Made during the Republican era, it was produced by the state-owned China Film No. 2 Studio based in Shanghai. The film was released in late 1947, following the success of Chen Liting's first film Far Away Love.[1]

Rhapsody of Happiness
Original poster
Directed byChen Liting
Written byChen Baichen
Produced byLuo Xuelian
Xu Suling
StarringZhao Dan
Huang Zongying
Production
company
China Film No. 2 Studio
Release date
  • 1947 (1947)
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

Film and plot edit

Huang Zongying played a woman forced into prostitution and drug dealing in war-torn China, capturing both the degeneracy and the kindness of the character's complex nature. The male lead was her future husband Zhao Dan, China's most celebrated male actor of the time.[2]

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  1. ^ Yeh, Wen-Hsin (2000). Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. University of California Press. pp. 369–370. ISBN 9780520222182.
  2. ^ Lee (1998), p. 249.

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