Night Inn

Night Inn
Film poster
Directed byHuang Zuolin
Written byKe Ling
StarringZhou Xuan
CinematographyHuang Shaofen
Xu Qi
Ge Weiqing
Edited byFu Ji-qiu
Music byWu Renji
Production
company
Release date
  • 1947 (1947)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageChinese (Mandarin)

Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diàn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan.

The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's 1902 play The Lower Depths by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the Cultural Revolution but were popular in the post-Mao period.

References

  1. ↑ Pickowicz, P.G. (1993) 'Sinifying and Popularizing Foreign Culture: From Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths to Huang Zuolin's Ye dian', Modern Chinese Literature vol.7