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A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

Where:

Shanghai

When:

The 1930s The 1940s

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.

Released in 2010 — 80 minutes

Genres:

Animation War History

Language:

Mandarin