Transatlantic (2023)
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII. Transatlantic is a historical drama television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseilles, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Mia Meyer
Mary Jayne Gold Gillian Jacobs
Varian Fry Cory Michael Smith
Albert Hirschman Lucas Englander
Graham Patterson Corey Stoll
Paul Kandjo Ralph Amoussou
Lisa Fittko Deleila Piasko
Thomas Lovegrove Amit Rahav
Philippe Frot Grégory Montel
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Limited Series
2023
7 episodes
Season 1 of Transatlantic premiered on April 7, 2023
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII.
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Keywords
- france
- holocaust (shoah)
- nazi
- miniseries
- transatlantic
- refugees