Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)

Original title

Jona che visse nella balena

Directed by

Roberto Faenza

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 67 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Jewish boy named Jona experiences the horrors of the Holocaust. The film follows his childhood as he and his family are persecuted and sent to concentration camps.

heavysomberrestrainedharrowingintimatehistoricalreflectivestark

What happens

Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (Italian: Jona che visse nella balena; in the United States released as Look to the Sky) is a 1993 Italian-French drama film directed by Roberto Faenza, based on the autobiographical novel by the writer Jona Oberski entitled Childhood (Dutch: Kinderjaren), focused on the drama of the Holocaust. It was entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won the Prix of Ecumenical Jury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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