UP Film Institute




Calendar
When:
August 18, 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Asia/Manila Timezone
2019-08-18T16:00:00+08:00
2019-08-18T17:30:00+08:00
Where:
CINE ADARNA/ UPFI Videotheque
Cost:
Free

Rescue in The Philippines

Aug 18|Sunday|4:00 PM

Aug 29|Thursday|7:00PM

Rescue in The Philippines” is a one-hour documentary of the previously untold story of how the five Frieder brothers, Cincinnati businessmen making two-for-a-nickel cigars in pre-WWII Manila, together with Manuel Quezon, the charismatic first president of the Philippines, Paul McNutt, US High Commissioner and former governor of Indiana (preparing for his own presidential campaign) and an ambitious Army Colonel named Dwight Eisenhower –  helped 1,200 Jews escape the Nazis and immigrate to the Philippines.