The Yellow Ticket

A Jewish girl attempts to travel through her native Russia in 1913 to see her father who is dying in a St Petersburg prison. The only way she can get permission to travel is with a "yellow ticket" which identifies her as a prostitute. Though Giacomo Puccini doesn't figure in the writing credits, the plot owes more than a little to his opera La Tosca.

Raoul Walsh | USA | 1931

Preceded by: Old Bastards
Niki Caro | New Zealand | 1995