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A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

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Animation   War   History

📜 Overview: Based upon the popular graphic novel by Wu Lin, this is the first Chinese animated film to portray the Holocaust. The film centers around the warm friendship between Rina, a wide-eyed European Jewish schoolgirl and A-Gen, a Chinese pancake seller, who teach each other about their distant worlds as Shanghai struggles beneath its own cruelly portrayed Japanese occupation.

🌏 Languages Available: Mandarin

📆 Date Released: 2010-01-01

⌚ Running Time: 80 mins