Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
In 1939, the last hope for thousands of Jews lay in the last place on Earth the Nazis would look.
95 min
SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places, Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless and unprepared for their new life in the Far East. At the turn of the new millennium, filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amire Mann boldly snuck into China with two survivors and a digital camera to shoot at the site of the original Shanghai Ghetto, unchanged since WWII.
- Release date
- February 28, 2002
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Stephen Chang as He Feng San
- Irene Eber as Self
- Betty Grebenschikoff as Self
- Harold Janklowicz as Self
- Alfred Kohn as Self
- David Kranzler as Self
- Martin Landau as Narrator
- Sigmund Tobias as Self
- Buzeng Xu as Self
Crew
- Dana Janklowicz-Mann · Director
- Amir Mann · Director
- Dana Janklowicz-Mann · Producer
- Amir Mann · Producer
- Sujin Nam · Composer
- Dana Janklowicz-Mann · Editor
- Amir Mann · Editor