A Home Far Away
2012•1h 40m•7.0•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Peter Entell
Cast
Lois Wheeler Snow
Self
Edgar Snow
Self
Mao Zedong
Self
Zhou Enlai
Self
Richard Nixon
Self
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