Shanghai Ghetto
2002 · 95 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 224 VOTES · DIR. Dana Janklowicz-Mann
Overview
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.
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00:01:26 I was born in Berlin, Germany.
00:05:32 because it's the end for the Jews in Germany.
00:09:25 Of course, the lines on all the embassies and consulates...
00:13:27 As British subjects, they were able to take part in the booming Shanghai trade.
00:17:26 and at that time if you heard a bell ring at any hour...
00:21:01 Everybody cheering and clapping.
00:24:50 Shanghai was not prepared for this kind of an influx-
00:28:55 who had worked in Cuba before that.
00:32:39 In summertime...
00:36:38 It doesn't matter whether-
00:40:15 and said you-know-what to them in that language.
00:44:34 that he was now interned at Septfonds.
00:48:42 There also was a small boxing club...
00:52:51 He kept getting fevers, and it was called "Shanghai Fever. "
00:57:16 certainly by the end of the year- all the enemy aliens-
01:01:16 grabbed the bread from her arm and started running.
01:05:18 because all the Americans and all the British were put into internment camps.
01:09:03 he became a big Nazi.
01:12:26 We had what they called a "paocha"...
01:16:21 with shmattes covering so nothing would shine out.
01:20:03 which was maybe the fifth or sixth floor.
01:23:51 That's when we found out that it was over.
01:28:53 because there was the feeling of we had survived and they had not.
01:33:36 or a people.