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Movie Night -- Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
OnWednesday, Feb. 25, the NW China Council is showing the 9th film of its "Chinese Movie Night" presentations. Once a month, we schedule dinner and a film, followed by a guided discussion of the social, cultural and historical aspects each film presents.
In the late 1930's German Jews were trying to escape Nazi persecution, but country after country closed its doors to them. The only place in the world that didn't require entrance visas was the international city of Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, Jewish refugees arrived penny-less and unprepared for life in the Far East. They thought that they would soon go back to the world they had left. Little did they know that WWII would change their lives forever, and that they had embarked on what would become a miraculous and inspiring survival story.
Shanghai Ghetto is a feature length documentary with interviews of survivors and historians, rare letters, stock footage, still photos and footage shot in modern Shanghai where most of the Jewish Ghetto remains unchanged. The film tells the little known story of the Jewish refugees, their relationships with the local Chinese and with the occupying Japanese army, the attempts of the American Jewish community to help the refugees, the rich cultural life they have constructed under great hardship, and the tragedy of their relatives who stayed behind in Europe.
Running time: 97 minutes.
Wednesay, Feb. 25, 2009, 6:00PM dinner, 6:45PM film House of Louie Restaurant Banquet Room
331 NW Davis, ChinatownDinner & Movie: $20 members; $25 general. Please register on or before Feb. 24, 2009 5pm. Register & Pay On-line (click here), or Call 503-973-5451 SmartPark on NW Davis, between NW Naito Parkway
and NW 1st Ave.
