Just when you think there are no more forgotten stories of WWII, another is remembered. This documentary by two filmmakers, Austrian Paul Rosdy and American Joan Grossman, deals with the 20,000 Europeans Jews who fled to Shanghai during the years 1939-41
and established a flourishing enclave that was nicknamed "Little Vienna." The exodus to China was the by product of Shanghai's unique history; acquired by Great Britain during the Opium Wars of the 1840s, Shanghai — the "Paris of the East" — was a free port and no papers were required to
enter. Shanghai was, however, also crowded, disease-ridden, economically incapable of supporting the sudden influx of f...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
79 mins