Julianna Margulies
Directed by
Nicola Zavaglia & René Balcer
Written by
René Balcer & Nicola Zavaglia
Executive Producer
René Balcer
Executive Producer
Cheng Davis
Produced by
Nicola Zavaglia
Supervising producer
Elisabeth-Ann Gimber
Production Executive
Kamel Khalifa
Co-Executive Producers
Carolyn Hsu-Balcer
Lei Jiang
Directors of Photography
Carlos Ferrand
Olivier Léger
Nicola Zavaglia
René Balcer
Sylvestre Guidi
Edited by
Nicola Zavaglia
Jeremiah Hayes
René Balcer
Music composer
Judith Gruber-Stitzer
Animation by
Suzie Synnott
Special Participation
by
Tony Goldwyn
as
Eric Goldstaub (voice)
and
Nick Mancuso
as
Matteo Ricci (voice)
Square Word Calligraphy
Xu Bing
Pianist
Zhu Hao Bing
Voice-Over Cast (English version)
| Ho Feng Shan (voice) | Tony Chong |
| Dr. Gu Jue (voice) | Carolyn Fe |
| Prof. Su Zhiliang (voice) | Nan Yang |
| Zhang Yongpei (voice) | Alex De La Cruz |
| Zhou Huizhen (voice) | Doreen Tang |
Voice-Over Cast (Chinese version)
| Narrator | Nan Yang |
| Ho Feng Shan (Voice) | Wei Chen |
| Matteo Ricci (Voice) | Chia-Yen Yao |
| Eric Goldstaub (Voice) | Bernie Yao |
Interviews
(order of appearance)
Keith Eisner
William Eisner
Lotte Marcus
Vera Sasson
Otto Schnepp
Jerry Moses
Harry Fiedler
Irena Steinfeldt
Director of the Department of the Righteous
Yad Vashem
William Chiang
Dr. Liliane Willens
Prof. Irene Eber
Dept. of East Asian Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Su Zhiliang
Dean of History Department
Shanghai Normal University
Dr. Gu Jue
Zhang Yongpei
Zhou Huizhen
Roslyn Eisner
David Eisner
Jonathan Eisner
Canada/USA
| Sound Recordists | Olivier Léger |
| Catherine Van Der Donckt | |
| Paskal Perrault-Saule | |
| Assistant to the Director | Krassy Halatchev |
| Production Assistant | Theresa Bonello |
China
| Location Fixers | Jesse Coffino |
| Yang Ping | |
| Translators | Jesse Coffino |
| Carolyn Hsu-Balcer | |
| Yang Ping | |
| Steadicam Operators | Sun Quilei |
| Liu Zhongyuan | |
| Production Assistant | Liu Zhao Zhen |
| Driver | Bai Chun |
| Piano Rental | Shanghai Zhengwei Musical Instrument Co. |
Austria
| Location Contact | Ernst Vogel |
| Driver | Stefan Christandl |
Israel
| Production Manager | Noam Shalev |
| Location | Karin Neumann |
| Camera Operator | Yaniv Shmueli |
| Driver | Gilad Rosenberg |
Post-Production
| Post-Production Supervisor | Jeremiah Hayes |
| Services Provided by | Peak Media |
| MELS | |
| Peak Media Vice-President Marcuse Olivier | |
| Post-Production Coordinators | Ariane Baril |
| Nichola Lapierre | |
| Head Archival Researcher | Thea Toole |
| Researchers | Julie Roorda |
| Terri Foxman | |
| Shannon L’Hérault | |
| Marianna Simeone | |
| Carmel Kilkenny | |
| Don Winkler | |
| Assistant Picture Editors | Tim Miron |
| Emmanuelle Lane | |
| Geneviève Thibert | |
| Nik Nikolaidis | |
| Translation | Yan Liang |
| Xi Feng | |
| Xiaoxiao Yan | |
| Translation Coordinator | Ellen Warkentin |
| Chinese Dialogue Coach | Veronique He |
| 3D Photo Graphics | Ivan Presser |
| Sound Designer | Daniel Toussaint |
| Re-recording Mixer | Daniel Toussaint |
| Dialogue Editor | Tristan Capachionne |
| Sound Effects Editor | Francis Gauthier |
| Foley Artist | Lise Wedlock |
| Foley Recording | Eric Md Lagacé |
| Sound Mixer | Daniel Toussaint |
| Colorist | Guillaume Millet |
| On-line Editor | Guillaume Millet |
| Transcription | Julie Roorda |
| Recording Studios | The Cutting Room Studios (New York) |
| Astrolab Studios Inc. (Toronto) | |
| Cinescope Sound (Vancouver) | |
| Studiotoons Inc (Montreal) | |
| Patches Sound Inc. (Los Angeles) | |
| Dialogue recordists | John Gratton (New York) |
| Rabby Teng & Luis Roderick Balcazar, (Toronto) | |
| Gregor Phillips, (Vancouver) | |
| Tristan Capacchione, (Montreal) | |
| Jake Valentine, (Los Angeles) | |
| Voice Casting | Elite Casting (Canada) |
| Nadia Rona | |
| Subtitles by | Trans & Sub Coop |
| Xi-Feng | |
| Accounting | Elisabeth-Ann Gimber |
| Insurance Broker | BFL Canada |
| Legal Counsel | Sam Coppola, Gascon & Associates |
| Auditor | Michael Katz, Katz & Associates |
| Travel Agents | Sandro Girolamo, Vision Voyages |
| Lilian Ting, Harold Lee & Son Travel |
Music Segments
“Wind blows…”
Words and Music by Huang Ruo
© UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING CANADA
on behalf of G. RICORDI & CO. LONDON LTD. (SOCAN)
Performed by Huang Ruo, piano, and Arash Amini, cello
“Impromptu D 899, Op. 90, No 3 in G-flat major”
Composed Franz Schubert
performed by Zhu Hao Bing
“A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix”
composed by Wang Jian Zhong
© 1973, by permission of the Wang Jian Zhong estate
performed by Zhu Hao Bing
Original Score Performed by
Simon Aldrich – Clarinet 1
Stephane Allard – Violin
Andrew Horton – Bass
Amanda Keesmaat – Cello
Laurence Sabourin – Accordion
Mark Simons – Clarinet 2
| Additional Music | Daniel Toussaint |
PHOTO ARCHIVES
Alamy
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Bridgeman Art Library
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H12630 / photo: O. Ang
Courtesy The Everett Collection
David Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com
Ezra Hayim Cohen
FOTOE
Getty Images
Henryk Ross, A young boy in the ghetto, 1940 – 1944. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
Henryk Ross, Father and daughter, 1940 – 1944. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
Henryk Ross, Manager with his daughter in the bakery, 1942. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
Hong Kong Heritage Project
Liz Lillicrap, Virtual Shanghai Project
Man with pipe, Sam Sanzetti © Moshe Dexler
The Central News Agency, Taiwan
The Oster Visual Documentation Centre
Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People
Russell Goodman, Shanghai Refugees Museum
UNA/Item CNRRA 30/S-0801-0009-0001-00059/1948-12-31
UNA/Item CNRRA 31/S-0801-0009-0001-00058/1948-12-31
United Nations Archives/S-0801-0009-0001-00080/1948-12-31
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ernest G. Heppner
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry Fielder
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hannah (Mansbacher) Weill
Wedding Photo, Sam Sanzetti © Moshe Dexler
Young Boy, Sam Sanzetti © Moshe Dexler
© Imperial War Museums (SE 5226)
The Hong Kong Heritage Project archive
© Crown Copyright. IWM
Stock Footage Supplied by:
Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
Buyout Footage
Critical Past
eFootage
Getty Images
Historic Films
Internet Archive’s 35 mm Stock Footage Collection
National Archives and Records Administration/Department of Defense
Periscope Film LLC
Pond5
Shutterstock.com
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
UCLA Film & Television Archive
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Chronos-Media
Very special thanks to:
Harold Newman
Will Cantler
Missy Malkin
Adam Berkowitz
The Producers Wish to Thank:
Paul Kelly
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
Chen Jian, CEO/Curator
Yang Ping, Liaison
Shanghai Media Group (SMG)
Wang Jian Jun, Director General/President
Gan Chao, Director, DocuChina
Li Tao, Deputy General Manager, DocuChina
Dong Lingli, Liaison
Foreign Affairs Office, Shanghai Municipal People’s Government
Yang Deming
Zhang Yaozhong
A.B. Yehoshua
Wang Qun, Deputy Curator, Archives of Hongkou District
Prof. Xu Xin, Professor, Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University
Wu Qing, Secretary, Hongkou Committee of CPC, Shanghai Municipality
Sun Lide
Hsu Yuen Kan
Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Matthew Walerstein
Donald Walerstein
Zhu Minyang, Mayor of Yangzhou
Hao Sheng
Arthur Holden
Gertha Gottlieb
Bahar Karakhol
Sandra Fiedler
Danny Goldstaub
Jin Yiping
Fu Yifan
Wu Jun
Lily Klebanoff Blake
Walter Hua, Clark Xiong, Concierge Team, Four Seasons Hotel, Puxi
Stella Gu
Yao Xin
Frank Mingyuen
Cynthia Mingyuen
Tess Jouany
SPD Bank
Zhang Jian Zhong, Vice President
Xu Minyue, Branding Specialist (Shanghai)
Foreign Affairs Office of Hongkou District Government
Tilanqiao Sub-district Office of Hongkou District Government
Office of Educational Research, Shanghai Education Commission
Publicity Department of CPC Hongkou District Government
Hongkou District library
Shot on location in Canada, United States, China,
Austria, Italy and Israel.
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Shine Express
Presentation
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Time and Rhythm Cinema
Mattawin Company
Production
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