No Place on Earth
Add one more extraordinary survival tale to the canon of Holocaust documentaries: ‘No Place on Earth.’
No Place on Earth
In 1942, 38 members of five desperate Jewish families escaped the Nazis by descending into a muddy hole in southwest Ukraine. They had no idea that the pitch-black cave they discovered would be their home for nearly a year. When the cave dwellers finally emerged, they were greeted by a blinding sun that some of the children had forgotten existed. In 1993, cave explorer Chris Nicola was mapping one of the world's most extensive horizontal cave systems with a group of elite Ukrainian cavers. He discovered unusual objects: buttons, shoes, a grinding stone, even a rusty, old house key. Over the next nine years, Nicola pieced together a most unbelievable story: with no gear or training, a desperate group had lived in this cave for months on end, and survived.
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
Runtime
82
Language
English,
German
Director
Janet Tobias
FEATURED REVIEW
John Anderson, Variety
A substantial contribution to Holocaust cinema, “No Place on Earth” defies the notion that the era has been exhausted of its stories, or the ways they can be told: In uncovering its tale of Ukrainian Jews who spent 511 days underground during World War II, eluding Nazis and their own treacherous ...
Played at
Encino
Town Center 5
Claremont
Claremont 5
Beverly Hills
Lumiere Music Hall
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