Jonah Who Lived in the Whale
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (; 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.
Plot
Jonah is a three-year-old Dutch boy who lives in Amsterdam during the Second World War. After the occupation of the city by the Germans, he was deported to the concentration camp together with his entire family in 1942. Here Jonah will spend the remainder of the war in a shack with his mother, but separated from his father.
Cast
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| author | Hugh Fleetwood Jona Oberski |
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| director | Roberto Faenza |
| editor | Nino Baragli |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | adopt concentration camp driven insane end married nuclear physicist nuclear physics suffer world war |
| musicBy | Ennio Morricone |