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Theatrical Release:February 28th, 2002
On DVD & Blu-ray:January 25th, 2005
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Original Language:English
Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
Movie"In 1939 the last hope for thousands of Jews lay in the last place on Earth the Nazis would look"
SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strangebuttrue 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 Japanesecontrolled 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 JanklowiczMann 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
StarringMartin Landau
DirectorDana Janklowicz-Mann