The Port of Last Resort

Year: 1998

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Otto Tausig

Duration: 80 min

The film presents the little-known story of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to Shanghai between late 1937 and 1941. After 1939, Shanghai was the last and only resort to find safe haven from the Nazis, though not that safe either, as the film shows. This was due to Shanghai's status as a free port not requiring entry papers, and the relative tolerance of the Japanese...

Genre: Action   Documentary