Movie·2012·1h 40m

A Home Far Away

Name: A Home Far Away
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-04-01
Rating: 7
Cast: Lois Wheeler Snow, Edgar Snow, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Richard Nixon

★ 7.0Documentary

Synopsis

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.