Project Detail

No Place on Earth

Name: No Place on Earth
Director: Janet Tobias
Released: 2012
Duration: 81 mins

Synopsis

No Place on Earth brings to light an extra-ordinary true tale of survival that remained untold for decades. In 1993, Chris Nicola, an American cave enthusiast, was exploring the Ukraine's "gypsum giants," some of the longest horizontal caves in the world. Within this labyrinth, he came across signs of former human habitation: buttons, an old house key, a woman's dress shoe. Locals told him that during World War II, there were rumours of Jewish families hiding from the Nazis in the caves. No one knew what happened to them; over ninety-five per cent of the Jews in this region of Ukraine perished in the Holocaust. It took Nicola nine years to uncover the secret that the cave survivors had kept to themselves after emigrating to Canada and the United States. Now, they were ready to tell their story (TIFF 2012).

Details

Year: 2012
Type of project: Features
Running time: 81 mins
Director: Janet Tobias
Producer: Janet Tobias, Rafael Marmor, Paul Laikin, Nadav Schirman, Susan Barnett
Executive Producer: J. Flint Davis, David McKillop, Timm Oberwelland, Katja Zink, Jeff Field, Susan Werbe, Molly Thompson
Editor: Claus Wehlisch, Alexander Berner, Deirdre Slevin
Screenwriter: Paul Laikin, Janet Tobias
Director of Photography: Sean Kirby, Edu Grau, Peter Simonite, César Charlone
Composer: John Piscitello
Principal cast: Saul Stermer, Sam Stermer, Sonia Dodyk, Sima Dodyk, Chris Nicola

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sierra/Tango Productions

323 W. 84th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10024
United States
Tel: +1 212-496-8633

Sales Company

Global Screen GmbH

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Munich 80331
Germany
Tel: +49 89 2441295 500

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