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Persona Non Grata: Directed by Cellin Gluck. With Toshiaki Karasawa, Koyuki, Borys Szyc, Agnieszka Grochowska. Against his country's orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II.
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- Adventure, Biography, History
- Cellin Gluck
- 2015-12-05
Persona Non Grata (杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ, Sugihara Chiune) is a 2015 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Cellin Gluck. It depicts the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who was appointed a vice-consul and later a consul in Lithuania and served there from 1939 to 1940 and who saved lives of some 6,000 Jewish refugees by issuing transit visas to the Japanese Empire.
Synopsis. The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is the story of a man who believed in doing all he could do for the benefit of his ...
- Quiet Heroism of An Ordinary Man
- Historical Setting
- Shot in Poland, Screened in Lithuania
Gluck's goal in directing the film was not to narrate the story of some larger-than-life Japanese hero but to explore the process by which an ordinary individual, faced with a terrible dilemma, can come to a heroic decision. “It's like they say: Extraordinary things happen to ordinary people. Heroes are born when ordinary people respond to extraord...
In June 1940, as hostilities spread in the wake of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania. With most of Western Europe under Nazi control and the majority of countries barring immigration of Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe, thousands of desperate Lithuanian and Polish Jews descended on the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithu...
At its world premiere in Kaunas last October, Persona Non Gratareceived a five-minute standing ovation. “One elderly lady [in the audience] gave me a scolding,” Gluck recalls with a smile. “It doesn’t look like Kaunas!’ she complained. ‘Why didn’t you film it in Kaunas?’” Despite her chiding, Gluck is glad he was able to shoot the movie in Poland, ...
Cellin Hiramoto Gluck is a Japanese American director known for Persona Non Grata, Oba The Last Samurai, Sideways - aka Saidoweizu and Lorelei. As an assistant director/production manager he is known for Godzilla, Memoirs of a Geisha, Transformers, Remember the Titans, Contact and Black Rain among others.
- Cellin Gluck
- 6 min
Feb 4, 2016 · By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang. After its world premiere in Lithuania in October 2015, a new film about Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, “ Persona Non Grata,” made its U.S. premiere this past ...
Cellin Gluck filmography - movies and tv shows Cellin Gluck has been involved in.
