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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 616

The Little Angel

1935101 minChina

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Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese.
This copy runs: 100:41
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Synopsis

Huang Min grows up in a poor family that places great hope in his education. While his father is away, his mother, sister and grandfather support him through difficulties at school and in the neighbourhood. Inspired by a lesson about kindness, the boy secretly tries to repay their care, until rescuing another child places his own life in danger.

Cast

Wang Renmei

Ge Zuozhi

Tang Tianxiu

Lin Chuchu

DirectorsWu Yonggang

Historical context

Wu Yonggang followed The Goddess with another Lianhua production centred on family relationships. The prominence of a child performer links the film to a wider 1930s interest in childhood as a way of examining adult society.

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Availability checked on September 11, 2026.

Photograph credit

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Wang Renmei — Unknown photographer, before 1937; Changsha municipal source, via Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain — PD-China and PD-1996
Lin Chuchu — Unknown photographer; Liangyou (The Young Companion), issue 9, October 15, 1926; digitized by Internet Archive and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Chris Woodrich. · Public domain — PD-China and PD-US-expired

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