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Retrospective

Laogong zhi aiqing (Laborer’s Love)

From Zhang Shichuan

With Zheng Zhegu, Zheng Zhengqiu, Yu Ying

Year 1922

Duration 24 min.

Language Chinese

"Laborer's Love" is the first fully preserved Chinese film. Spectacular stunts, action sequences, parallel storylines, and time-lapse shots make it a classic of the popular “cinema of attractions,” which combines techniques from Chinese acrobatic theater with stylistic elements of American genre films.