Plunder of Peach and Plum is an early Chinese sound film from 1934. Produced by the left-leaning Shanghai-based Diantong Film Company

Diantong Film Company

Diantong Film Company was a short-lived but important film studio and production company during the 1930s in Shanghai, China. Though it produced only four films during its existence between 1934-1935, all four films became important examples of the left-leaning Chinese cinema of the 1930s...

, Plunder was directed by Ying Yunwei and starred popular actor Yuan Muzhi

Yuan Muzhi

Yuan Muzhi was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.- Career :...

 (who also co-wrote the screenplay). It is alternatively known as The Fate of Graduates.

The film was featured in the 62nd Venice International Film Festival

62nd Venice International Film Festival

The 62nd Venice International Film Festival opened on August 31, 2005 with Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and closed on September 10, 2005 with a screening of Peter Ho-sun Chan's musical Perhaps Love. The lineups were announced by the festival director Marco Müller on July 28, 2005 in Rome...

 as part of their retrospective, The Secret History of Asian Cinema.

Plot

The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for the better, but are continuously challenged by the corruption and injustice of Chinese society.

External links

• Plunder of Peach and Plum at the Chinese Movie Database
• Plunder of Peach and Plum from the UCSD
  University of California, San Diego
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  Chinese cinema learning center