Rhapsody of Happiness

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 by	Chen Liting
Written by	Chen Baichen
Produced by	Luo Xuelian Xu Suling
Starring	Zhao Dan Huang Zongying
Production company	China Film No. 2 Studio
Release date	1947 (1947)
Country	China
Language	Mandarin

Film and plot

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]

Cast

• Zhao Dan
• Huang Zongying
• Gu Eryi
• Zhang Yi

See also

• List of Chinese films of the 1940s

References

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.

Bibliography

• Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (1998). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century, 1912-2000. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0798-0.