Movie
Greedy Neighbors
1933 · 41 min
A fragmentary silent-era parable that feels like a stern moral lesson, tense and earnest, with the weight of missing reels hanging over it.
- Directed by
- Pengnian Ren
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lizhu Wu, Feiguang He, Feijuan Wang
- Overview
- A foolish wealthy inheritor, whose household is dependent on his wife's competence, finds his estate threatened by a bully neighbor in this allegory of the difficulty of dealing with unchecked aggression and treachery, and of the tension between traditional Chinese customs and early 20th-century European influences. Originally about 100 minutes, only 41 minutes exist.
- How it feels
- Earnest, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, power, betrayal, class
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Pengnian Ren
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lizhu Wu, Feiguang He, Feijuan Wang
