娱乐英语新闻:Jewish refugee movie to be shot in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Schindler' s list producer Branko Lustig visited the Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai on Friday, announcing his plan to produce a movie about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during the Second World War

With an investment of 30 to 45 million U. S. Dollars, "The Melanie Violin", a joint work of China and America, will be filmed by the end of this year.

The movie, which is an adaptation of a novel written by Chinese American writer He Ning, tells stories about a Jewish violinist who fled to Shanghai and fell in love with a Shanghainese woman.

Dubbed as the Noah's Ark of the Orient, Shanghai sheltered more than 30,000 Jewish refugees during the Second World War, preventing their being slaughtered by the Nazis.

Today, there are still some Jewish descendants living in Shanghai.

Being a survivor from the Auschwitz concentration camp himself, Lustig is grateful to Shanghai.

"It's very difficult to be a survivor. I know the most," said Lustig, "In the concentration camp, the food was bad. Germans were killing them (Jews), but here in Shanghai it was different. It was a life here."