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Sunday, March 26, 2023

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON TRANSATLANTIC WW2 SET NETFLIX SERIES WITH CORY MICHAEL SMITH, COREY STOLL, LUKE THOMPSON AND GILLIAN JACOBS

  TRANSATLANTIC SERIES  
ARRIVES APRIL TO NETFLIX
The series starts April 7th on Netflix
Just like I promised you we are spending our third weekend in a row in France as I have that other new World War II set series to present to you today along with new cast photos and a trailer. TRANS ATLANTIC a  seven episode historical mini series on the evacuation of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust will start streaming over at Netflix on April 7th, created by Anna Winger and based on the novel “The Flight Portfolio” by Julia Orringer. The series had an exclusive premiere over at the freshly finished Series Mania and will lean more towards Casablanca than Schindler's List thanks to an element of
It will stream in seven episodes
humour and comedy in it. The trauma and drama is processed with humour and positivity which differs it from similar war shows.
 
  TRANS ATLANTIC is a fictionalised retelling of the real life story of American journalist Varian Fry (Cory Michael Smith) who, in 1940 at great personal risk, helped in establishing the Emergency Rescue Committee which oversaw the rescue and transportation to America of Jewish refugees and anti-Nazi dissidents from Nazi-occupied France. Along with American heiress Mary Jayne Gold (Gillian Jacobs) and German economist Albert Hirschman (Lucas Englander), Fry and the Committee helped in saving the  lives of between 2,000-4,000 prominent thought leaders, artists, and writers, some of whom appeared on the Nazi’s most-wanted list. Among those rescued  by Varian Fry were Jewish writer Franz Werfel, poet and writer Andre Breton, painter and sculptor Max Ernst, and the relatives of novelist Thomas Mann. For his heroic efforts, Mr Fry became the first American to be named ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in 1994 by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum. Corey Stoll plays Patterson, the American Consul in Marseille who sees the refugees as an existential threat to American values. Rounding out the main cast are Grégory Montel as Philippe Frot, Ralph Amoussou as Paul Kandjo, Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Amit Rahhav as Thomas Lovegrove, and Luke Thompson as Hiram "Harry" Bingham, an American Vice Consul in Marseilles.

8 comments:

  1. Anna Winger in partnership with Netflix? Nothing good comes out of it. We must remember this is based on a novel, not the real doings of Varian Fry. The novel’s major novelty is that Orringer drags Varian Fry out of the closet, and apparently the series deals more with the love/sex lives of those involved, including several fictional characters and the omission of major players in the real life rescue account like Miriam Davenport.

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    1. They do say it is fictionalized, so there is that, them admitting they will manipulate with the facts and serve the truth the way they like it. They like it that way, remember how they depict Freydis in Valhalla like some almost chaste woman who fights for justice and is especially protective of women? In reality, according to all their myths she was a bloodthirsty biyach who, when her men would refuse to butcher women, would enter a village herself and singlehandedly slaughter all the women and kids in it herself as it was the Viking way.... I'm afraid in about a hundred years or so Netflix will shoot series with Hitler being a lovely chap who loved Jews and Serbs and did not gas us alive in camps but gave us gas for heating LOL

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    2. Yes, I wrote about that in my Valhallah review. Freydis was a traitor, and Godwin was not a kingslayer.Your bleak vision of the future will come true if Netflix relies on AI to write its scripts.

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    3. AIs scare the coons tail out of me!

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  2. This can be interesting and it's on Netflix...so, why not? I don't know any of the actor though.

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    1. You've probably seen Corey Stoll in some old movies, he's been acting for decades.

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  3. Idk about this one. I find nothing humorous about that time period.

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    1. It is always easier to swallow a bitter pill with some honey.

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