| Product: Yue (Shaoxing) Opera Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
Starring: Yuan Xuefen, Fan Ruijuan, Zhang Guifeng, Lv Ruiying
Performed by Shanghai Film (Group) Corporation
Published by Jiangsu Culture Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2005
Media: 1 DVD
Language: Chinese
Subtitle: Chinese
ISBN: 7884091461
ISRC: CNE230500450
This disc contains the film of
Yueju Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, which was made in 1953 starring Fan Ruijuan
(Liang Shanbo) and Yuan Xuefen (Zhu Yingtai), the first color picture made in
China. It is the best known opera of the tragic love story. Other variations of
the title "Liang Zhu," "Butterfly Lovers".
A beautiful and talented woman named Zhu Yingtai from Shangyu, Zhejiang,
disguises herself a man travelling to Hangzhou for attendance of an academy.
During her journey, she met and joined Liang Shanbo, a companion schoolmate from
Shaoxing, who was believed her moral and intellectual equal. For three years of
study in Mount Phoenix, they form a close bond of love and friendship but
without the other student knowing she is actually a woman. They swear a pact of
brotherhood. When the two part, Zhu wishes to marry Liang, and offers to arrange
for Liang to marry her 16 year-old fictitious sister within a hundred days. She
does so and Liang Shanbo accepts. However, in the meantime, Zhu Yingtai's
parents arrange a marriage for her with another man because she does not tell
them her secret arrangements to marry Liang Shanbo. When her parents tell her
after her returning home, Zhu Yingtai refuses the marriage to the son of the Ma
family and her parents accuse her of filial impropriety. She finally relents and
agrees to marry the Ma son. Shortly thereafter Liang Shanbo arrives and
proposes. Zhu Yingtai regretfully refuses him and tells him her situation. Liang
Shanbo understands her difficulty but is deeply saddened. He dies only two days
after their meeting of sadness. Zhu Yingtai is alerted to his death and on the
way to her future husbands home for the marriage, she stops at Liang Shanbo's
grave. She jumps into the cracked tomb as she wails at sacrifice, and a pair of
butterflies are flapping as Liang and Zhu. They are once again together and live
happily ever after.
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is one of the four archaic legends in China, so
called Chinese Romeo and Juliet story. Other three legends are Madam White
Snake, Meng Jiangnu's Wail Shattered the Great Wall, and the Cowherd and the
Weaving Maid.
商品名称：越剧《梁山伯与祝英台》
领衔主演：袁雪芬、范瑞娟、张桂凤、吕瑞英
演出：上海电影（集团）公司
出版社：江苏文化音像出版社，2005
介质：DVD
碟数：1
字幕：中文
ISBN：7884091461
ISRC：CN-E23-05-0045-0/V.J9
中国经典戏曲电影系列之一
祝英台女扮男装前往杭州求学，路遇梁山伯，结为兄弟并同窗三载。后祝父催归，英台行前，托媒师母许婚梁山伯。十八相送，祝英台以妹相许。梁山伯归家，病亡。祝英台新婚之日，花轿绕道梁山伯坟前祭奠，惊雷裂墓，英台入坟，梁祝化碟双舞。 |
