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999			_c1042 _d1042
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008			150921b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
040			_cSILC
041			_bchi _beng _hchi _jchi _jeng
046			_k1934
050			_aPN1997 _b.S546 1934
100			_aYonggang Wu
240			_aThe Goddess
245			_aShen nu _bThe Goddess _cYonggang Wu _h[videorecording] =
246			_aThe Goddess
260			_aChina _bLianhua Film Company _c1934
300			_a1 videodisc (ca. 73 min.) _bsound, b&w.; _c4 3/4 in.
500			_a<based on, contains the following, public viewing rights>
520			_aFrom case cover: Ruan Ling-yu plays a prostitute who uses her earnings to support and educate her son. The title of the film "The Goddess" was the Shanghai way of describing a woman who sells her body. The heroine is forced to enter this oldest of professions as it is the only way for her and her child to survive and to provide fro his education. One night she encounters a gangster as she flees from the police. he forces her to work for him, giving up her earnings at the end of each night. Yet she is able to hide some of her money in order to continue payments to her son's school. The school board discovers her occupation, and the boy is expelled despite the pleading of the sympathetic headmaster. When the gangster steals her money, the prostitute after a brief struggle kills him. She is sent to prison for 12 years. The final scene in jail depicts the headmaster promising to raise her son, forestalling his son being sent to an orphanage. Raun's acting in the last sequence displays her complicated response to the news of her child's good fortune and the kindness of the headmaster. Ruan, as in so many of her films, is the symbol of China's suffering. Only as a prostitute could she support her child and give him an education.
538			_aDVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; PAL; Regions 1-6,8; 4:3 fullscreen.
546			_aSilent Film. Chinese or English subtitles.
700			_aYonggang Wu _eDirector _eScreenwriter
700			_aLingyu Ruan _eActor
700			_aTian Jian _eActor
700			_aZhizhi Zhang _eActor
942			_2lcc _cDVD