TIVOLI, film SHANGHAI EXPRESS, Sat Nov 25, 6pm, 1932, 80 mins, with Marlene Dietrich

[Tivoli]

      Saturday November 25, 6pm

                Tivoli screens the last film in our

                'Tivoli Turns Ten'

                program of films shown at the opening of

                Tivoli Waiheke's namesake,

                'The' Tivoli Cinema, Tiverton, U.K. 1932

       SHANGHAI EXPRESS

                 1932, 80 mins, with Marlene Dietrich

China, 1931, is experiencing civil war. A British Army captain and brain surgeon is on the same

train as a famous courtesan, Shanghai Lily, his former lover. Their meeting is set against the

back-drop of conflict. While the narrative is loosely based on a 1923 incident in which a

Shandong warlord captured the Shanghai to Beijing express train, the film was notable for its

sumptuous effects and being a vehicle for the ultra-alluring Marlene Dietrich.

Although unsurprisingly orientalising, many of the white characters in the film are seen as

flawed and racist and Dietrich described as 'surprisingly feminist' in her dominating presence.

Donation appreciated

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