Awards and Selected Screenings
Message to Man Film Festival 1999
Centaur Prize: Best DocumentaryCinemanila Film Festival, Philippines 1999
Best DocumentaryFraming the Other Documentary Film Festival, New York 1999
Best Picture29th International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin 1999
Official SelectionHong Kong International Film Festival 1999
Official SelectionJerusalem International Film Festival 1999
Official Selection
In the years between 1938 to 1941 nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai, China where most would spend almost a decade in exile. The emigration to Shanghai was, for most refugees, a "last resort" to find a safe have at a time when borders around Europe were closed to the desperate Jews of Europe.The little-known story of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai is presented through the recollections of four former refugees -Fred Fields, Ernest Heppner, Illo Heppner, and Siegmar Simon- and a thorough collage of evocative materials: personal and published writings by refugees, relief reports, secret documents, rare home movies, photographs, newsreels, and propaganda films.
This remarkable archival material reveals a lost world when Shanghai was the Far East's most illustrious city. Extraordinary images of refugees and uncommon views of Chinese life create a compelling vantage point for understanding this story of survival.
"...The film wisely never veers from its tight focus on intriguing stories of escape and survival"
- The Asian Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1999“A richly detailed, elegant documentary... absorbing and valuable.” - The Jewish Week
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Home Use Only DVD
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The National Center For Jewish Film
Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454
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