No Place on Earth
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| Directed by | Janet Tobias |
| Starring |
Chris Nicola Saul Stermer Sam Stermer Sonia Dodyk |
| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | US/UK/Germany |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $200,238 (North America only) |
No Place on Earth is a 2012 Docudrama directed by Janet Tobias. The film was released theatrically in the United States on April 5, 2013.[1]
In 1993, NYPD officer and caving enthusiast Chris Nicola visited Ukraine to explore the Verteba and Priest's Grotto caves, and found evidence that they had recently been inhabited by humans. After discovering that the caves were used by Jews escaping The Holocaust, he embarked on a decade-long quest to find survivors. The film features interviews with survivors and their descendants, now living mainly in New York City and Montreal, and includes a segment in which Tobias brings some of the survivors, the oldest of whom was in his 90s, into the caves.[2]
The film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and the Jewish Film Festival Berlin. Its screenwriters, Janet Tobias and Paul Laikin, were finalists for the 2014 Award for Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.
Cast
- Chris Nicola as Himself
- Saul Stermer as Himself
- Sam Stermer as Himself
- Sonia Dodyk as Herself
- Sima Dodyk as Herself
- Yetta Stermer as Herself
- Sol Wexler as Himself
- Cliff Stermer as Himself
- Katalin Lábán as Esther Stermer
- Péter Balázs Kiss as Saul Stermer
- Dániel Hegedüs as Sol Wexler
- Balázs Barna Hídvégi as Nissel Stermer
- Fruzsina Pelikán as Sonia Dodyk
- András Orosz as Sam Stermer
- Mira Bonelli as Sima Dodyk
- Nóra Kovács as Yetta Stermer
- Bernadett Sára Borlai as Hannah Stermer
- Péter Zsömbelyi as Zaide Stermer
- Norbert Gogan as Louie Wexler
References
- ↑ "No Place On Earth". Magnolia Pictures. February 19, 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Derviskadic, Dado (March 18, 2013). "511 Days of Total Darkness: The Incredible True Story Behind the Documentary No Place on Earth". TheCredits.org. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
External links
- Official website
- No Place on Earth at the Internet Movie Database
- No Place on Earth at Rotten Tomatoes
- Review from Variety (September 9, 2012)
- Review at Roger's Movie Nation (February 24, 2013)