Romance of a Fruit Peddler (1922)
勞工之愛情
Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients...
- Date of release
- 1922-03-08
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Shichuan Zhang
Casting
- Zheng Zhegu — Cheng the Fruit Seller
- Zheng Zhengqiu — Doctor Zhu
- Yu Ying — Miss Zhu
Interesting facts
Laborer's Love is a classic silent comedy short film produced in China during the Republican Era, which officially premiered on 5 October 1922 at the Olympic Theater in Shanghai. It is also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler or Romance of a Fruit Pedlar. Even though filmmaking in China began in the 1890s, Laborer's Love is the earliest complete film from China's early cinematic history that is available today. The film was also one of the earliest productions of the soon-to-be prolific Mingxing Film Company and was directed and written by Mingxing co-founders Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu.
Production
Genre: romance film & comedy film: slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, mischief comedy, happy (comic) ending—a modern twist on a traditional custom
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