Apaches
Two refugees and how fate brought them together in China 1946. A documentary film about two refugees - an Austrian and a Chinese - and how fate brought them together in China in 1946. Ferdinand Adler…
Apaches
Two refugees and how fate brought them together in China 1946. A documentary film about two refugees - an Austrian and a Chinese - and how fate brought them together in China in 1946. Ferdinand Adler (1903-1952) was a violinist from Vienna who escaped the Nazis for Shanghai in 1939, and Mingliang Sheng (1932-2023) was his pupil, who escaped the "Rape of Nanjing" under the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. The story unfolds through the eyes of their adult children, Christina Adler and Fang Sheng, who meet in Kufstein, Tyrol, to record a radio documentary for the Canadian broadcaster CBC. The film opens in a shop where Ferdinand Adler's violin is being restored for an exhibition in the Jewish Museum in Vienna. The story ends on May 6, 2023, on the occasion of Ferdinand Adler's 120th birthday, when the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra commemorates him on the streets of Shanghai. Concert Master Ming Liu plays Hebraic Melody by Joseph Achron in honor of her predecessor. Outstanding archival materials (film, photo, text and music) bring this unusual story to life. The languages spoken in the film are German, English and Chinese.
Apaches
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Two refugees and how fate brought them together in China 1946. A documentary film about two refugees - an Austrian and a Chinese - and how fate brought them together in China in 1946. Ferdinand Adler (1903-1952) was a violinist from Vienna who escaped the Nazis for Shanghai in 1939, and Mingliang Sheng (1932-2023) was his pupil, who escaped the "Rape of Nanjing" under the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
The story unfolds through the eyes of their adult children, Christina Adler and Fang Sheng, who meet in Kufstein, Tyrol, to record a radio documentary for the Canadian broadcaster CBC. The film opens in a shop where Ferdinand Adler's violin is being restored for an exhibition in the Jewish Museum in Vienna. The story ends on May 6, 2023, on the occasion of Ferdinand Adler's 120th birthday, when the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra commemorates him on the streets of Shanghai.
Concert Master Ming Liu plays Hebraic Melody by Joseph Achron in honor of her predecessor. Outstanding archival materials (film, photo, text and music) bring this unusual story to life. The languages spoken in the film are German, English and Chinese..