Glass House - The El Salvador Action

November 21, 2008 by markhopper

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Glass House, is an independent feature-length documentary about the historically-overlooked “El Salvador Action” in which two Salvadoran diplomats devised and implemented a daring plan to provide protection to approximately 30,000 endangered Jews during World War II.

Director Brad Marlowe who self-funded the project shot in high-end digital video brings Glass House to the Latino Film Festival in hopes of securing a larger distribution deal.

Glass House (78 minutes) is a moving documentary of how El Salvador, one of the smallest countries in the world, facilitated one of the most successful rescue operations during the second World War. It shares the story that begins in 1942 when the lives of thirty thousand Jews were saved when they were issued certificates of Salvadorian citizenship thanks to “El Salvador Action”. José Arturo Castellanos headed the operation, a man assigned to open the Consulate of El Salvador in 1938 in in Hamburg while Europe was under Nazi siege. Glass House shares one of the greatest humanitarian efforts in the Holocaust’s history. The documentary was filmed over a three-year period on location in Central America, Switzerland, Hungary, and Spain, as the sons and daughters of the heroes themselves along with some of the survivors of the effort, share this inspirational story, all people who owe their lives to El Salvador.