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Zuflucht in Shanghai
The Port of Last Resort
A Film by Joan Grossman and Paul Rosdy
Music by John Zorn
Zuflucht in Shanghai
T H E P O R T OF L AST RESOR T
A film by Joan Grossman & Paul Rosdy
Selected for the 29th International Forum of
New Cinema, Berlin, 1999;
Best Documentary, Centaur Prize, „Message
to Man“ Film Festival, St. Petersburg, 1999;
Best Documentary, Cinemanila International
Film Festival, Philippines, 1999;
Best Picture, „Framing the Other“ Film
Festival, New York City, 1999;
Hongkong International Film Festival ,1999;
Jerusalem International Film Festival, 1999;
Vancouver International Film Festival, 1999;
Pusan International Film Festival, 1999;
Sao Paolo International Film Festival, 1999;
Mar Del Plata International Film Festival,
Buenos Aires, 1999;
Taipeh Golden Horse Film Festival, 1999
79 min, 16 mm, Austria / USA, 1998
Production: Pinball Films & Extrafilm
Written, directed, edited and produced
by Joan Grossman & Paul Rosdy
In the years 1938–1941, nearly 20,000 European Jews escaped the terror of the Nazis by
fleeing to Shanghai, China. Most would end
up spending a decade in exile, building a
community known as „LittleVienna“ and surviving in a ghetto controlled by the Japanese.
Chapters:
1. The Port of Last Resort
2. Siegmar Simon
3. Fred Fields
4. Ernest Heppner
5. Illo Heppner
6. 1939: Arrival in Shanghai
7. Hongkew
8. Shanghai
9. The War in Europe
10. Little Vienna
11. 1940: Refugee Relief Report
12. December 1941
13. Hardship and Survival
14. Ghetto
15. 1943: Conditions Worsen
16. Wintertime
17. 1945: Air Attack in the Ghetto
18. Ghoya, King of the Jews
19. We didn‘t know about the Holocaust
20. After the War
21. Exodus
22. Credits
Music: John Zorn
Musicians:
Greg Cohen (bass)
Anthony Coleman (piano)
Mark Feldman (violin)
Erik Friedlander (cello)
Marc Ribot (guitar)
Min Xiao-Fen (pipa)
Soundtrack „Filmworks VIII“
available on Tzadik Records
Co-Producer: Lukas Stepanik
Sound Design: Vincent Tese
Cinematography: Wolfgang Lehner
Voices: Barbara Sukowa (Annie Witting),
Otto Tausig (A. J. Storfer) and Jaromir
Borek, Erika Deutinger, Fritz von Friedl,
Brigitta Furgler, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer,
Peter Kybart, Gen Seto, Michael Scheidl,
Matty O‘Shea, Keenan Shimizu,
Sabine Thomson, Maria Urban
Interviews: Fred Fields, Ernest Heppner,
Illo Heppner, Siegmar Simon
Films:
Eric J. Schmidt;
Charles Bliss Home Movies,
National Film & Sound Archive;
Voticky Family Home Movies,
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre;
National Archives;
The Library of Congress;
UCLA Film & Television Archive;
The Film History Foundation;
Grinberg Film Libraries;
Archive Films;
Fish Films
Photographs, Writings and Documents:
Christina Adler, Henry Compart, Horst P.
Eisfelder, Fred Fields, Heinz Gert Friedrichs,
Leah J. Garrick, Ernest Heppner, Illo Heppner,
David Kranzler, Peter Reiss, Hertha Shriner,
Siegmar Simon, Peter Witting
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee;
Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen
Widerstandes; Leo Baeck Institute; The Library
of Congress; New York Public Library;
Österreichisches Literaturarchiv; Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek; Politisches Archiv des
Auswärtigen Amtes; Sigmund Freud Museum;
Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste;
United Nations Archives Unit; Yivo
Institute for Jewish Research
Historical Advisor: Dr. David Kranzler
Sound Recordists: Chris Bryan, Vincent Tese
Voice Recording: Ton Eichinger,
Buttons Sound, LRP Studio
Super-8 photography: Paul Rosdy,
Joan Grossman
Camera Assistants: Jon Gerrard,
Jamie Tabachnik
Photo Stills and Reproduction: Paolo Vescia
Production Associates: Patric Chiha,
Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Jay Stern,
Melissa Waldron
Transcription: Nannette Deasy, Birgit Nagele
Animation Photography and Titles: F-Stop
Studio / Gary Becker
Opticals: DuArt, Film Effects,
Interformat / Monaco Labs
Sound Mix: CocoLoco Audio
Archival Film Duplication: Colorlab
Film Lab: DuArt
Negative Cut: Immaculate Matching
Legal Counsel: Abrams, Garfinkel & Rosen
Accounting: Anna Maria Leber
Insurance: DeWitt Stern Group
Fiscal Sponsor: Media Network
Additional Songs:
„Sippur”, „Hadashah” and „Yatzar”
from the album „“The Circle Maker“,
Composer: John Zorn,
Courtesy of Tzadik Records
„Ich Hab Heut’ Nacht”
(Barlied / Kleiner Walzer II)
by Alfred W. Kneucker
with permission of Raoul Kneucker
performed by Dennis Malone
„Kleine Komödie”
by Georg Hübsch & Paul Wiener
with permission of Ursula Hübsch
performed by Dennis Malone
„The Little Mill” (Song of the Porters)
with permission of Monitor Records
„Sell Candy Song”
Composer: Liang Le Yin
Lyrics: Li Jun Qing (CASH)
Recording Artist: Li Xiang Lan,
courtesy of EMI (Hong Kong) Ltd.
„Yung Yung Yung”
Composer: Liang Ai Yin
Lyrics: Li Qi Niu (CASH)
Recording Artist: Liang Ping,
courtesy of EMI (Hong Kong) Ltd.
„Xiao Hua” (Little Flower)
Composer and Lyrics: Wu Cun
Recording Artist: Bai Guang
courtesy of EMI (Hong Kong) Ltd.
„Chinese Wedding”
by Whitey Smith, J. Elder,
J. Meredith, J. Anderson
performed by Whitey Smith &
The Majestic Hotel Orchestra
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label of
BMG Entertainment
„Bulbes” (Traditional)
Emil Decameron and his Orchestra
Courtesy of Vanguard Classics a division
of Omega Records Group
A Co-Production of Pinball Films,
New York / Vienna & Extrafilm, Vienna
Produced with the support of:
Federal Chancellery of Austria /
Department for the Arts;
ORF / Austrian Broadcasting Corporation;
Home Box Office;
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation;
The Arthur Ross Foundation;
Documentary – an Initiative of the MEDIA
Programme of the European Community;
Wiener Städtische Versicherung;
Theodor Körner Fonds
(P) 1998 Pinball Films / Extrafilm GmbH
Subtitles:
Pinball Fims (D/UK)
Jean-Luc Perrin (F)
Luis Gago (E)
Mariko Takahashi (J)
Layout and Design: Günter Mattei
CD-Smartpac: 19532321.1-53 Herzog + Idex
CD-Packaging: M 9710405.1 Winter&Winter
Print: Printoffensive GmbH
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Made in Germany
Joan Grossman & Paul Rosdy
Photography:
Library of Congress, Washington; United
Nations Archive, N.Y.; National Archives,
Washington: Heinz Gert Friedrichs (Sammlung
Frederick Rolf); Public Library, N.Y.;
Yivo Institute, N.Y.; Horst P. Eisfelder,
Melbourne; Sigmund Freud Museum, Wien;
Paolo Vescia (Grossman & Rosdy)