OSCARS® FYC: Screening | Reception for the Chinese
Documentary 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru'
Synopsis: A documentary about the 1942 torpedoing of a Japanese freighter that carried British prisoners of war during World War II. The film tells the story of the sinking of the Japanese freighter and the heroic efforts of the Chinese fishermen who helped to rescue the young British POW survivors. (China). The film features interviews with two of the last surviving British POWs (now sadly deceased), as well as family members of the lost men.
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