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Chengshi zhi ye
CHINA · 1933

Chengshi zhi ye

Fei Mu
poverty sexual coercion landlord exploitation slum life class struggle
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Synopsis

The daughter of a poor family living in the slums is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, she is forced to give up her body to her landlord's son in exchange for a delay in construction. Considered a lost film.

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