Movie: A Home Far Away

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Lois Wheeler Snow
Lois Wheeler Snow

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Edgar Snow
Edgar Snow

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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

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Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai

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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

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    A Home Far Away

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    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.

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    2012-04-01

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