A Home Far Away
MovieTitle | A Home Far Away |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Apr 1, 2012 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Peter Entell |
Production country | Switzerland |
Run time | 100 min. |
The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husband, Edgar Snow, is world famous. A pioneer fascinated by China, he is the first journalist to film and interview Mao Tse-tung. Suspected by the American authorities of Communist sympathies, Ed and Lois are blacklisted. Together with their two small children, they go to Switzerland, mid-way between China and America, where they find a new home. A story of revolution, utopia, disillusionment, and hope.