Varian's War (2001)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	William Hurt	...	Varian Fry
	Julia Ormond	...	Miriam Davenport
	Matt Craven	...	Beamish
	Maury Chaykin	...	Marcello
	Alan Arkin	...	Freier
	Lynn Redgrave	...	Alma Werfel-Mahler
	Rémy Girard	...	Colonel Joubert (as Remy Girard)
	Christopher Heyerdahl	...	Marius Franken
	Gloria Carlin	...	Bella Chagall
	Joel Miller	...	Marc Chagall
	Vlasta Vrana	...	Franz Werfel
	John Dunn-Hill	...	Heinrich Mann
	Ted Whittall	...	Harry Bingham
	Dorothée Berryman	...	Mme Fanny
	Howard Ryshpan	...	Konditorei Owner

Storyline

After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace... Written by KGF Vissers  

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