Jonah Who Lived in the Whale | |
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Directed by | Roberto Faenza |
Written by | Roberto Faenza Jona Oberski ("Jona Obersky") Hugh Fleetwood |
Starring | Jean-Hugues Anglade |
Cinematography | János Kende |
Edited by | Nino Baragli |
Music by | Ennio Morricone |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Countries | Italy France |
Language | English |
Box office | $30,000 [1] |
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. [2]
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The child suffers cold, hunger, fear, deprivation, and even harassment by the other boys. He seldom encounters compassion: only the cook, who later dies, and the doctor of the clinic show him kindness. The fate of Jonah's parents is tragic: his father dies of exhaustion from being overworked and his mother succumbs in a hospital after the end of the war, having been driven insane by her ordeal and her husband's death.
However, Jonah survives and, back to Amsterdam, is adopted in his father's employer home where, after an initial period of suffering, he regains the will to live.
Many years after the war Jonah has become a nuclear physicist, gets married, and has three sons.
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