Country: China
Directed by Zhang Shichuan
'Romance of a fruit peddler' is the earliest surviving in complete form Chinese film: surprisingly is cute and funny enough- as is a comedy- to be in this list. Although it seems a bit childish, you never get bored as happen with many other silent films, and you follow the plot with pleasure. Zhang Shihuan draws his characters to be lovely, showing a mixture of kindness, goofiness, and 'naive' forgivable amoralism and this helps to finish watching the film with a smile in your face. The film doesn't have high artistic value but somehow, manages to look fresh even today as its simplicity make it very good on communicating its message to the viewers
You can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNPe4CcvPg
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