A Home Far Away

A Home Far Away (2012)

Genres :

Documentary
  • Runtime

    1h 40m

  • Language

    EN

  • Production Countries

    Switzerland

  • Release Date

    2012-04-01

Overview

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.

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