Persona Non Grata

The film is about a Japanese diplomat. He is introduced through his young years in Manchuria. His career takes him to Lithuania. His posting is the city of Kaunas. The years are those on the edge of the Second World War. Jews in Europe are looking for a way out. The German army is advancing quickly. The diplomat is bound by his country’s decisions. Japan is by then tied to Germany by treaty. But people are trapped in front of his eyes. His conscience and his instructions come into conflict. In the end he decides to issue visas. He writes more than two thousand of them. Those papers save the lives of more than six thousand people. Toshiaki Karasawa and Borys Szyc appear in the one hundred thirty nine minute film, a Japanese and Polish production Cellin Gluck finished in 2015.