A Home Far Away
A Home Far Away

A Home Far Away

2012-04-01| 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.

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Documentary

Cast

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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