Mother's Happiness

Mother's Happiness
Mother's Happiness
	A screenshot
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
Starring	Zhou Wenzhu; Wang Cilong; Wang Naidong; Fu Jianqin;
Cinematography	S.M. Chow; S.S. Yue;
Production; companies	Yueming Film Company; Great China Lilium Pictures;
Release date	1926;
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.

[1] Berry, Chris; Farquhar, Mary (2006). China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. Columbia University Press. p. 243. ISBN 0-231-13706-0.

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