Plot:
While on leave in Hong Kong, German sailor Glen Dierks meets nightclub dancer Anna Suh. After some initial miscommunication, the two have a whirlwind romance with the backdrop of bustling Hong Kong. Halfway through the film, Glen decides to take Anna Suh with him back to his village in rural northern Germany, where the people are anything but welcoming. Being released over a decade before Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s New German Cinema classic Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), this melodrama criticizes West Germany’s problem with xenophobia and racism.
Title (English release): Girl from Hong Kong
Trailer:
People:
Akiko Wakabayashi – Anna Suh
Michiko Tanaka – dialogue assistance
Secondary literature:
Fitzpatrick, Zach Ramon. “The World(s) of Anna Suh: Race, Migration, and Ornamentalism in Bis zum Ende aller Tage (Until the End of Days, 1961).” In East Asian-German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present, 146-175. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Links:
Filmportal.de database entry
IMDB
Purchase DVD from Filmjuwelen
2017 film screening in “Heimat, deine Fremde” series at Zeughauskino
Additional information about tags:
Mise-en-scène: Asian-coded prop or cultural object – chopsticks
Mise-en-scène: Asian-coded wardrobe – red cheongsam/qipao
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