“Above the Drowning Sea” traces the journey of European Jews who found sanctuary in Shanghai, the famed, cosmopolitan “City above the sea,” when no other country, in a world on the brink of World War II, would welcome them.
A documentary film about World War II refugees in Shanghai
“Above the Drowning Sea” traces the journey of European Jews who found sanctuary in Shanghai, the famed, cosmopolitan “City above the sea,” when no other country, in a world on the brink of World War II, would welcome them.