| Mother's Happiness | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 兒孫福 |
| Simplified Chinese | 儿孙福 |
| Literal meaning | Fortunes of Descendants |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Ér Sūn Fú |
| Directed by | Shi Dongshan |
| Written by | Zhu Shouju |
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Running time | ~48 minutes (extant version, incomplete) |
| Country | Republic of China |
| Languages | Silent film, with Chinese and English intertitles |
Mother's Happiness is a 1926 Chinese drama film directed by Shi Dongshan and written by Zhu Shouju, starring Zhou Wenzhu as a devoted rural mother who reared 4 children by herself after her husband died from an accident. It is one of the earliest extant Chinese films, but a portion is still missing. Like most Chinese films from this period, it is a black-and-white silent film with both Chinese and English intertitles.
The English title is ironic, because the mother in the story hardly enjoyed any happiness in her life.[1]
- ^ Berry, Chris; Farquhar, Mary (2006). China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. Columbia University Press. p. 243. ISBN 0-231-13706-0.