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Enemies, Friends / Berlin & Beyond Autumn Showcase 2014
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE AT BOX OFFICE!
Box Office opens at 10:30 AM Directly at New People Cinema.
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78 mins. (Germany, Japan; 2013) in German &Japanese with English subtitles. Digital projection.
Enemies l Friends - German Prisoners of War in Japan
A documentary by Brigitte Krause
The story of an extraordinary prisoner of war camp where German soldiers passed on culture and crafts to their Japanese captors, which have since become part of Japan's own distinctive ways of life.
Hans-Joachim Schmidt from Kutzhof, Germany, finds in the attic of his new house photos and letters of German prisoners-of-war (PoW) in Japan during World War I. He starts a historical and biographical research project.
At the age of 24, Kazue Shinoda learns that she has a German grandfather, who was one of those PoWs in Japan. Her search leads to an unusual family reunion nearly 100 years after the Japanese set up the PoW camps.
Renate Bergner, daughter of a former prisoner of war, keeps the scripts and photos of her father for the future generations.
1914: The Japanese took almost 5,000 German prisoners when they conquered Tsingtao, then a German colony in China. In the PoW camps in Japan, such as Bando, German culture seeps into the local communities through crafts, exhibitions, lectures and numerous theatre and concert performances.
The first Japanese performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 took place here. Bando was a starting point in Japan for a lot of German heritage that is now embedded in Japanese culture, for example the baking of German bread. Mr. Oka still bakes German bread four generations later.
Bando became a strong symbol for Japanese-German friendship and all this was enabled by the PoW Commandant Matsue treating his German prisoners with respect.
**THIS EVENT HAS A STRICT REFUND POLICY. No refunds will be processed by Brown Paper Tickets more than 12 hours after the time of purchase.**
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LocationNew People Cinema (View)
1746 Post St
San Francisco, CA 94115
United States
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