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Fei Mu (1906-1951) was a talented screen director He acquired a profound understanding and good command of the traditional techniques of artistic expression in classical Chinese aesthetics and the characteristics of realism in film production. He tried hard to achieve a perfect combination of the two in film creation. Fei Mu was adept at portraying the temperament of the characters and their individual traits, especially in vivid, detailed depictions of their psychological activities and in employing various art factors to serve such portrayals, thus forming a style of his own. Pictures in the films he directed were concise and compact, with a graceful composition and slow but fresh and elegant rhythms.


Fei Mu made ten films, including Night in the City and Spring in a Small Town, which is considered his most representative piece. spring in a Small Town deals with the sentiments among the members of a family It is a work of high artistry and cinematography. The film describes the feelings, moral consciousness, psychological characteristics, and behavior of ordinary people. it was precisely in the elegant, graceful, and delicate form of film that such descriptions resided and the true human nature and the sense of beauty of the art achieved perfect harmony. The film was listed at the top of the ten best Chinese films by critics abroad in the 1980s and won fame for Chinese cinema around the world.

For more than three decades, Fei Mu's Spring in a small town was a forgotten film. Fei Mu moved to Hong Kong soon after making it, and died there in 1951. He was later reviled as a "rightist" by the apparatchiks who wrote the official history of Chinese film for the Communist Party, and none of his films was deemed important.

This picture began to change only in the early 1980s, when the China Film Archive re-opened (like other institutions, it had been closed down during the Cultural Revolution) and made a new print from the original negative of Spring in a small town. The film quickly found a new and admiring audience. Many Chinese critics - especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan - consider it the greatest Chinese film ever made.

Note:This film is a truly great classic, Wei wei (her name is same with me... )'s stunning performance is one of the best I've ever seen in the film. I've translated all dialogues to english, give me some time to adjust delay time, just get the film at first.

Spring in a Small Town - The best Chinese-language movie of all time

Fei.Mu.-.Xiaocheng.zhichun.-.Spring.in.a.Small.Town.(1948).-(auess).avi

Fei.Mu.-.Xiaocheng.zhichun.-.Spring.in.a.Small.Town.(1948).English.subs.-(auess).srt

I've translated all dialogues to english, give me some time to adjust delay time, just get the film at first.

I've translated all dialogues to english, give me some time to adjust delay time, just get the film at first.

just give him time.

Fitzcarraldo escribió:your name is Wei Wei? but thanks! All of these chinese classics are really great!

by_MaRio escribió:Sorry, didn't read it cause of the emotion

trep escribió:Thanks Auess! I can't click it right now, but I will as soon as I am back home in a week or so

Fredersen escribió:...And by the way, auess, what do you know about the availabilty of the films in this list? http://www.chinesecinemas.org/chinacentury.html To my knowledge, practically everything from the beginning of the century to the 60's is impossible to find. Are some of those at least available in China? I'd love to see things like Street Angel or The Lin Family Shop (I love Mao Dun's original story).

auess escribió:more chinese classics will be out in the future, including other Ruan Lingyu's silent films except "The Goddess", for example "Little Toys" "New Woman"

auess escribió: BTW: more chinese classics will be out in the future, including other Ruan Lingyu's silent films except "The Goddess", for example "Little Toys" "New Woman"; and a realistic film classic "Spring Silkworms".

KoroshiyaOne escribió:Huge thanks to auess for this. Been wanting to see it for ages.

If it's any help, there's an english-language translation of the script here: http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/spring/default.htm

Fitzcarraldo escribió:thanks auess!!!!!!! thanks thanks thanks thanks!!! I've post this and the movie in Fh as you resquested

KoroshiyaOne escribió:Huge thanks to auess for this. Been wanting to see it for ages.

If it's any help, there's an english-language translation of the script here: http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/spring/default.htm

maybe it's late to tell you this?