TRANSATLANTIC SERIES
ARRIVES APRIL TO NETFLIX
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| The series starts April 7th on Netflix |
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| It will stream in seven episodes |
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.
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThey 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
DeleteYes, 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.
DeleteAIs scare the coons tail out of me!
DeleteThis can be interesting and it's on Netflix...so, why not? I don't know any of the actor though.
ReplyDeleteYou've probably seen Corey Stoll in some old movies, he's been acting for decades.
DeleteIdk about this one. I find nothing humorous about that time period.
ReplyDeleteIt is always easier to swallow a bitter pill with some honey.
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