An Unknown Country

Home Documentary An Unknown Country

The story of European Jews who escaped Nazi persecution to find refuge in Ecuador, a country barely known at the time. The film follows the exiles' escape and difficult adjustment as they remade their lives in what was for them an exotic, unfamiliar land.

Documentary

Directed by

Eva Zelig

Starring

Ralph Grunewald, Egon Schwarz, Vera Kohn, Werner Loval, Anne Anker, Eva Ehrenfeld, Moselio Schaechter, Alberto Dorfzaun, Henry Horvath