Hong Shen, the pioneer of early Chinese cinema, and "Peach Blossom after the Disaster"

The story of this film takes place after the German occupation of Qingdao in 1897, when zhu Youwei, a former Qing dynasty widow, built a garden villa on the coast of Qingdao. The owner of the garden in the neighborhood of Zhu Jia suffered injustice for offending a certain interpreter of the German Consulate in China, the house was confiscated and confiscated, and the whole family was expelled. Zhu Youwei, fearing the same misfortune, decided to marry The Translator Wang and set up a feast to entertain the German Governor in Qingdao, who deliberately pursued The Daughter of Zhu Lao, Ruifen (Hu Die). Although Ruifen hated being a man, he had to make perfunctory arrangements for the sake of his father. After the outbreak of World War I, Japan replaced Germany and occupied Qingdao. In order to curry favor with the new master, Wang's translator turned to Japan, and in order to curry favor with the new master, he was falsely accused of being pro-German, arrested him on suspicion of political suspicion, and the villa was confiscated and changed into a "Japanese military club". Zhu Wife had no choice but to take Ruifen to the countryside for the time being. After the situation was slightly fixed, Ruifen and his old mother returned to Qingdao, because they had no support for a while, relying on Mr. Li, who had been a tutor in the Zhu family. At that time, his cousin Yu Jiajun, who often borrowed money from the Zhu family, had become a pawn in the Japanese military, and he proposed to marry Ruifen on the condition of rescuing Zhu Lao from prison. Ruifen already loved Mr. Li and knew yu Jiajun's personality, so he categorically refused, and later Mr. Li managed to rescue Zhu Lao, and the Zhu family fulfilled his marriage with Rui Fen in order to repay his rescue grace. A few years later, Qingdao returned to the motherland. Wang Translator and Yu Jiajun, who were dependent on the power of the foreigners, were spurned by the people. At this time, the owner of the neighboring garden, Zhu Jia's original maid Liu Florist, also returned to his hometown, only to see that the garden where the peach blossoms used to bloom was now full of desolation. And Ruifen, who used to secretly admire, has also become a married woman. There is really a sense of peach blossoms after the disaster, and everything is not the same.

The film depicts the vicissitudes of a family's personnel and reflects the history of imperialist aggression against China. With rich life experience and skillful artistic skills, the playwright condenses decades of national humiliation into one family. "Peach Blossom After the Disaster" expresses the will and voice of the Chinese people to resist imperialist aggression with a vivid and vivid artistic image, and is an excellent film work of the star company in this period.

Screenwriter Hong Shen, with his family's villa in Laoshan Nanjiushui, Qingdao, the property of Guanchuantai, was encroached upon by the Japanese army, and wrote the essay "My "Lost Land"" in "Taibai" Vol. 1, No. 4 (November 5, 1934), and then wrote a film script with this theme " Peach Blossom after the Disaster " published in "Literature" Vol. 2, No. 1 and No. 2, which attracted the attention of the literary film circles at that time and was considered an excellent achievement in Hongshen's plays. The star company, staffed by the strongest cast members, listed the show as a "masterpiece of 1935" at a cost of twice as much as the average film, which was completed and released at the end of 1935. At that time, Japanese militarism took advantage of its privileges in the concession in an attempt to force the film to be discontinued, but it was later abandoned for fear of causing outrage.