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CAST & CREW
Harold Janklowicz, Alfred Kohn, Betty Grebenschikoff
Directed by Dana Janklowicz-Mann, Amir Mann
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SYNOPSIS
In the late 1930s thousands of German Jews, fearing for their lives under Nazi rule and unable to secure entrance visas to other countries, found refuge in the Japanese-occupied city of Shanghai. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 35 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Menemsha
GENRE
Education/General Interest, World History/Culture, World War II, History, Documentary, Jewish Heritage, Germany, Family Crises, Holocaust, Jewish
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Shanghai Ghetto Site
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 "This is riveting stuff, especially in its account of how refugee culture and community spring up almost overnight."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"The strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that, in the simple telling, proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A Jewish WW II doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock, out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience! Who knew..."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann area headed east, Far East, in retelling a historically significant, and personal, episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of German Jewish refugees while the world's democracie"
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"Some remarkable achival film about how Shanghai (of all places) served Jews who escaped the Holocaust."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Like Lisa Gossels' Children of Chabannes (2000), which tells another little-known story about French villagers who saved 400 Jewish children, Shanghai Ghetto is a celebration of humanity."
-- Maria Garcia, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"This may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other Holocaust films, but it's a compelling story, mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
 "Shanghai Ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story, but you might want to think twice before booking passage."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"It's incredible the number of stories the Holocaust has generated. Just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians, another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"This kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes Shanghai Ghetto move beyond a good, dry, reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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-- Jonathan Kiefer, POPMATTERS
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"The problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage. The images lack contrast, are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"An absorbing documentary."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"The story itself it mostly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors, whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Shanghai Ghetto, much stranger than any fiction, brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life."
-- Mary Brennan, SEATTLE TIMES
"The power of Shanghai Ghetto, a documentary by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann, rests in the voices of men and women, now in their 70s, who lived there in the 1940s."
-- Marta Barber, MIAMI HERALD
"The film is delicately narrated by Martin Landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by Dana Janklowicz-Mann."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"This would be thoroughly engrossing if the film itself weren't an example of the most tedious brand of documentary."
-- E! ONLINE
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Avg. Rating: 6.7/10 |
"Despite the film's shortcomings, the stories are quietly moving."
-- Teresa Wiltz, WASHINGTON POST
"Serious and thoughtful."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Nothing is exceptional about Shanghai Ghetto, a documentary by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann, except the story itself."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the Holocaust."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"A modestly made but profoundly moving documentary."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Like all great films about a life you never knew existed, it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"A salute to those who were blessed not only with savvy and courage, but something between an uncanny sense of foresight and an unforeseen stroke of good fortune."
-- John Petrakis, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Shanghai Ghetto may not be as dramatic as Roman Polanski's The Pianist, but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"The documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads, etc. -- to do the subject matter justice."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"The film isn't especially dynamic, but it brims with insightful, poignant memories from survivors."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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