Film: Exile Shanghai
Exil Shanghai, a film by Ulrike Ottinger (Germany/Israel, 1997; 16mm color; 275 minutes) with English subtitles. The lives of six German, Austrian and Russian Jews cross paths in wartime Shanghai. This documentary film traces their lives in exile through interviews, documents, and photos combined with scenes of contemporary Shanghai.
5 p.m. Part I: Rena Krasno; Part II: Theodore and Gertrude Alexander
7:30 p.m. Part III: Inna Mink; Part IV: George Spunt; Part IV: Geoffrey Heller
The Five College Ulrike Ottinger Film Series is made possible by:
Ulrike Ottinger; Goethe Institute Boston, German Cultural Center for New England; Amherst Cinema / Pleasant Street Theater; Five College Film Council; Amherst College: Department of German and the Media Studies Initiative / Mellon Foundation; Hampshire College: Dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Sites and Citations Program, European Studies Program and the Film, Video and Photography Program; Mount Holyoke College Film Studies Program and Department of German Studies; Smith College Department of German Studies and Film Studies Program: UMass Amherst: Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, German and Scandinavian Studies, DEFA Film Library, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies.
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