The Samaritan of Shanghai

Film “The Samaritan of Shanghai”, by Sébastien Cassen. In 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War, Robert Jacquinot de Besange created the first security zone in history in Shanghai and saved 350 civilians.

The French Jesuit father is a paradoxical and exceptional personality. A forgotten hero whose work is enshrined in the 1949 Geneva Convention.
Documentary, 2020, 52 minutes, France / China
Authors: Sébastien Cassen and Anne Paschetta
Director: Sébastien Cassen
Editing: Sébastien Cassen
Mixing: Benoît Gibertaud
With the support of the City of Saintes, the former Poitou-Charentes Region, the Department of Charente-Maritime and in partnership with the CNC-National Center for Cinema and Animated Images, Shanghai Normal University and the French Consulate in Shanghai