Chiune sugihara persona non grata movie

Japanese film

Persona Non Grata (杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ, Sugihara Chiune) is a Japanese biographicaldrama film directed by Cellin Gluck.

It depicts the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who was appointed a vice-consul and later a consul in Lithuania and served there from to and who saved lives of some 6, Jewish refugees by issuing transit visas to the Japanese Empire.

Even though most of the film is set in Interwar Lithuania, various places in Poland were chosen for filming.

Chiune sugihara persona non grata movie

The Polish cargo ship SS Sołdek also appeared in the movie.

Plot

In , a Jewish man named Nyiszli comes to the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in search of Chiune "Senbo" Sugihara, a man who once saved his life.

An officer named Ichiro Sekimitsu, who acommondates Nyiszli, responses that "There is no such diplomat called 'Senbo Sugihara'". Disappointed, Nyiszli left the Ministry after he left a word that he will find Sugihara overall.

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