Shanghai Ghetto and its historical background/context is fascinating and amazing in its own right, but the movie itself isn't quite up to the task. It's either too long, or didn't have enough footage to last 97 mins. Though these are interesting characters with stories i am quite interested in, too often we are staring at them talking, and many of the photographs are used more than once. It's of 온라인카지노추천 standard and frankly a bit disappointing because with the given material it is quite possible to make a great documentary.

(***): Thumbs Up An interesting documentary on a topic that I did not even though anything about before.

I read a book about this, but to hear people talk about the transition from Germany to Shanghai was overwhelming. Several people are shown visiting the exact locations in Shanghai where they stayed during the war. Not a lot has changed.

Very interesting documentary. I didn't know about the Jewish refugees in Shanghai. Although I really liked it, I thought that at times the pace was not very fluent.

Beautiful documentary about a Jewish refugee community in Shanghai. Amazing how they got there and created and created such thriving culture under such destitute conditions. I knew nothing about this history.

Quote: "You don't know you were in the heaven until you got kicked out." History is too heavy to forget!

it's a super interesting story, kind of warm and fuzzy too ... (minus the uber poor chinese ppl) but the film is poorly organized. it reminds me of something my high school history teacher would have shown.

This doc should, or better yet, MUST be made into a feature length film this side of Schindler's List & The Pianist!

Interesting subject, but the filmmaking wasn't tight.

A documentary about loss, fear and hope. When the jewish population in Germany saw the growing anti-semitism during the beginnin of WW11 some of them tried to get out. Most countries locked their doors to these refugees even though they knew of Hitler's anti-semitic views. This did not hinder Hitler from finding his own way to rid himself of the jews. Some jewish people purchased first class tickets to Shanghai aboard cruises. This is the only way that they could leave and to a place that did not have strict requirements regarding government papers. They lived in the Japanese run ghetto of Shanghai. A very interesting story with yet another perspective of WWII.

A very sad and poignant doc on a hidden part of Holocaust history. Good times all around.

I didn't like this film.

(DVD) (First Viewing, First Mann & Mann film) In this post-[b]Schinder's List[/b] age it seems like we've been oversaturated with stories depicting the horrors of the Jewish people under Hitler and the Nazis. And then a film like [b]Shanghai Ghetto[/b] emerges as a reminder that that whole sad chapter in history is so massive, so complex, and so widespread that there will always be facets of the situation that never get the attention they deserve. This award-winning documentary tells the story of several thousand Jews who fled Europe in the early 1940's to the only place on earth you didn't need a Visa to get into- Shanghai, China. With the influx of refugees pouring into the already overcrowded city, problems were bound to occur. That didn't stop from a vibrant (if impoverished) society to emerge from the ashes of countless ruined lives left back in Europe. SHANGHAI GHETTO interviews several survivors of the era (who were children then)- and it's their alternately funny and devestating testimony that drives the film. Basically this film depicts yet another story that needed to be brought to light, and SHANGHAI GHETTO does it very, very well.