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Sunday, Mar 10, 2019
12 PM (275 mins)
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Exile Shanghai
(Exil Shanghai)
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Fascinating and rich with wry humor, Exile Shanghai is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of Shanghai. In the dark days of the 1930s, the Chinese metropolis was the last refuge for Europe’s persecuted Jews—a place that did not demand a visa. Those who managed to find refuge there brought with them the social and gastronomic delights of Vienna and Berlin. Ottinger’s four-and-a-half-hour mosaic features interviews with former members of the Shanghai expatriate Jewish community (many of whom relocated to Northern California), and her ever-curious camera cruises the city in search of its lost synagogues, schools, and salons.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Ulrike Ottinger
Cinematographer
- Ulrike Ottinger
Language
- English
- Yiddish
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 275 mins
Source
- Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art