Jonah Who Lived in the Whale

Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (Italian: Jona che visse nella balena), in the United States released as (Look to the Sky) is a 1993 Italian-French drama film directed by Roberto Faenza, based on the autobiographical novel by the writer Jona Oberski entitled Childhood (Dutch: Kinderjaren), focused on the drama of the Holocaust.

It was entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won the Prix of Ecumenical Jury.

He seldom encounters compassion: only the cook, who later dies, and the doctor of the clinic show him kindness.

The fate of Jonah's parents is tragic: his father dies of exhaustion from being overworked and his mother succumbs in a hospital after the end of the war, having been driven insane by her ordeal and her husband's death.

However, Jonah survives and, back to Amsterdam, is adopted in his father's employer home where, after an initial period of suffering, he regains the will to live.