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Song
(Schmutziges Geld)

Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film
Vintage Print
Directed by Richard Eichberg .
With Anna May Wong, Heinrich George.
Germany/UK, 1928, 35mm, black & white, silent, 94 min.
Print source: British Film Institute

In her first European film, Wong plays a dancer drawn into a tragic romantic triangle when she meets a cabaret knife thrower and his capricious sweetheart. Song is notable both for Wong’s dancing and for the dramatic power of her performance.

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