''Night Inn'' () is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by

Huang Zuolin Huang Zuolin (; October 24, 1906 – June 1, 1994) was a Chinese film director. Life Huang Zuolin whose ancestral home was at Panyu, Guangdong Province, was born in Tianjin. He graduated from Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College in 1925. During the p ...

and starring the popular Shanghai singer

Zhou Xuan Zhou Xuan (; born Su Pu (); August 1, 1920 – September 22, 1957), also romanized as Chow Hsuan, was an iconic Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China's Seven Great Singing Stars. She was the best known o ...

. The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

's 1902 play ''

The Lower Depths ''The Lower Depths'' (russian: На дне, translit=Na dne, literally: ''At the bottom'') is a play by Russian dramatist Maxim Gorky written in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902 under the direction of Konstantin ...

'' by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

but were popular in the post-Mao period.Pickowicz, P.G. (1993) 'Sinifying and Popularizing Foreign Culture: From Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths to Huang Zuolin's Ye dian', ''Modern Chinese Literature'' vol.7

References

External links

''Night Inn''
at the China Movie Database
''Night Inn''
at China's Movie Database
Zhou Xuan
at China's Movie Database * 1947 films 1940s Mandarin-language films 1947 drama films Chinese films based on plays Films based on works by Maxim Gorky Chinese black-and-white films Chinese drama films {{1940s-drama-film-stub