Film Archive
Exil Shanghai
The lives of six German, Austrian and Russian Jews cross paths in war time Shanghai. This documentary film traces their lives in exile through interviews, documents, photos combined with scenes of contemporary Shanghai. Located in the Far East's greatest metropolis with its numerous contradictory and conflicting histories and populations, these documentary episodes converge to form a startling new account of an historic exile.
Ulrike Ottinger was born in Konstanz in 1942 and studied Art in Munich from 1959-1961. She lived in Paris from 1962, working as a freelance artist and photographer. She has been living in Berlin since 1973 and is a member of the Academy of Arts and the European Film Academy in Berlin. Active as a writer, director and camerawoman, her films include: Laokoon & Sons (Laokoon & Soehne, 1973), Madame X - An Absolute Ruler (Madame X - eine absolute Herrscherin, 1977), Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979), Freak Orlando (1980), Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984), China. The Arts - The People (China. Die Kuenste - Der Alltag, 1985), Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia (1989), Taiga (1992), Exil Shanghai (1997), Southeast Passage (Suedost Passage, 2002), Twelve Chairs (Zwoelf Stuehle, 2004), Prater (2007), and The Korean Wedding Chest(Die koreanische Hochzeitstruhe, 2008), among others.
Category Documentary Cinema
Year of Production 1996
Director Ulrike Ottinger
Screenplay Ulrike Ottinger
Director of Photography Ulrike Ottinger
Editor Bettina Boehler
Music by Collection Raymond Wolff
Producer Ulrike Ottinger
Production Company Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion/Berlin, in cooperation with Transfax Film/Tel Aviv
Principal Cast Gertrude Alexander, Theodor Alexander, Geoffrey V. Heller, Rena Krasno, Inna Mink, Georges Spunt
Length 275 min, 3,150 m
Format 16 mm, color
Original Version English/German/Chinese
Subtitled Versions English, German
Sound Technology Mono
Festival Screenings Berlin 1997 (Forum), San Francisco 1997, Munich 1997
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Israeli Film Center, The New Foundation For Cinema & Television, Tel Aviv, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Tel Aviv
German Distributor Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek/Berlin
World Sales
Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion
Ulrike Ottinger
Fichtestrasse 34
10967 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-6 92 93 94
fax +49-30-6 91 33 30
email: office@ulrikeottinger.com
http://www.ulrikeottinger.com
Year of Production 1996
Director Ulrike Ottinger
Screenplay Ulrike Ottinger
Director of Photography Ulrike Ottinger
Editor Bettina Boehler
Music by Collection Raymond Wolff
Producer Ulrike Ottinger
Production Company Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion/Berlin, in cooperation with Transfax Film/Tel Aviv
Principal Cast Gertrude Alexander, Theodor Alexander, Geoffrey V. Heller, Rena Krasno, Inna Mink, Georges Spunt
Length 275 min, 3,150 m
Format 16 mm, color
Original Version English/German/Chinese
Subtitled Versions English, German
Sound Technology Mono
Festival Screenings Berlin 1997 (Forum), San Francisco 1997, Munich 1997
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Israeli Film Center, The New Foundation For Cinema & Television, Tel Aviv, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Tel Aviv
German Distributor Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek/Berlin
World Sales
Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion
Ulrike Ottinger
Fichtestrasse 34
10967 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-6 92 93 94
fax +49-30-6 91 33 30
email: office@ulrikeottinger.com
http://www.ulrikeottinger.com