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Above the Drowning Sea. A documentary film about World War II refugees in Shanghai. On the eve of World War II, tens of thousands of Jewish refugees are trapped in Nazi-controlled Vienna. This documentary is the epic story of their dramatic escape to Shanghai.
30 mag 2017 · With Julianna Margulies, Tony Goldwyn, Nick Mancuso, William Chang. A documentary about Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe who, at a time when all doors were closed to them, found sanctuary in Shanghai, thanks to the intervention of Chinese diplomat Ho Feng Shan who as Chinese consul in Vienna defied the Nazis and his own government by ...
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- Documentary
- Rene Balcer, Nicola Zavaglia
- 2017-05-30
- Risky Business
- The Way of The Dove
- More Similar Than Different
- Temporary Setbacks
Defying orders and resisting threats from the Gestapo, Ho issued around 2,000 Chinese visas to Jews before the Germans seized the consulate building. He then set up office in a nearby restaurant, where he continued to supply visas. By the time he was ordered to return to China in 1940, he had signed approximately 5,000. In 2000, Yad Vashem posthumo...
The current worldwide refugee crisis prompted Balcer to make the film, and the documentary is framed by contemporary footage, which emphasizes the story’s historical relevance. “I thought, what can we learn from history about a crisis like this and what lessons can we [gain from it]?” he says. “I’m not saying that the situations are completely anal...
Both communities were living under duress and suffered from the Japanese occupation of the city. The film shows that some of the relationships that formed went beyond tolerance. Some were personal — Jewish families rented rooms from Chinese families and children played together. Others were mercantile. Jewish shops sprang up, photographic studios a...
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bettlelheim recalls that, “things changed rapidly.” In 1942, the Japanese ordered that all Jews be ghettoized into the Hongkou district, where many Jews already lived. The area was referred to as “Little Vienna” because of its Viennese coffee houses and its bakeries. Conditions in the ghetto were crowded an...
28 mar 2020 · Told from the point of view of the refugees and the Chinese people who sheltered them, "Above the Drowning Sea " is an inspiring tale about people who found common cause and dignity in a world in chaos. Narrated by Julianna Margulies, with Tony Goldwyn and Nick Mancuso.
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Asia Society. 374K subscribers. 941 views 6 years ago. ...more. NEW YORK, September 28, 2017 — Following a screening of their film Above the Drowning Sea, director René Balcer and...
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