Movie Details
Theatrical Release:March 29th, 1991
Original Language:English
Cast & Crew
G
George Levinson
Screenplay
G
George Levinson
Director
E
Eleanor Coerr
Novel
V
Victoria Trostle
Screenplay
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1991)
StarringLiv Ullmann
DirectorGeorge Levinson
Plot
True story based on the book by Eleanor Coerr about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki who was two years old when the atom bomb fell on her city of Hiroshima Like so many other survivors of that horrific day she subsequently developed leukemia To keep herself occupied during her illness she begins the monumental task of folding a thousand origami cranesin the hopes that it will save her life
