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Oct 7, 2021 · J-Sei’s filmmaker series continues online with a special guest appearance by writer-producer-director Cellin Gluck, who will discuss his decades-long career in film production.
Cellin Gluck. Director: Persona Non Grata. Cellin Hiramoto Gluck is a Japanese American director known for Persona Non Grata, Oba The Last Samurai, Sideways - aka Saidoweizu and Lorelei.
- Cellin Gluck
- 6 min
- 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 Gluck. Director: Persona Non Grata. Cellin Hiramoto Gluck is a Japanese American director known for Persona Non Grata, Oba The Last Samurai, Sideways - aka Saidoweizu and Lorelei.
May 20, 2020 · 18 Things to Know About Griffin Gluck. By Emily Burack May 20, 2020. Griffin Gluck started acting when he was only 9 years old — his dad, a director, would give him small cameos in his films. “When I started professionally working, I was nine. But I’ve always been around the industry.
Dec 2, 2015 · As Cellin Gluck's World War II-era biopic "Persona Non Grata" ("Sugihara Chiune") shows us, life or death for those desperate Jews often came down to a piece of paper stamped "visa" and the...
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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 ...
