Exclusive: Thomas Peter Friedl (The Fourth State) of The Amazing Film Company is set to produce Courage On Demand, an eight-part limited series about Varian Fry, the American journalist who ran a daring rescue network in France that helped Jewish people escape persecution in Nazi-controlled France.
Gundula Leni Ohngemach (Super Wife) created the series, wrote the pilot and will write and produce with Friedl.
Set in 1940s war-torn Marseille, the show tells the story of young American Varian Fry who was dispatched to France by Eleanor Roosevelt to save a selected list of artists, scientists and opposing politicians from Nazi concentration camps. When Fry realizes there is no legal way of getting these endangered refugees out of France, he builds his own underground railroad of spies, thieves, forgers and adventurers to bring more than 2200 people to safety.
“I knew that Leni had researched this part of history for years and...
Gundula Leni Ohngemach (Super Wife) created the series, wrote the pilot and will write and produce with Friedl.
Set in 1940s war-torn Marseille, the show tells the story of young American Varian Fry who was dispatched to France by Eleanor Roosevelt to save a selected list of artists, scientists and opposing politicians from Nazi concentration camps. When Fry realizes there is no legal way of getting these endangered refugees out of France, he builds his own underground railroad of spies, thieves, forgers and adventurers to bring more than 2200 people to safety.
“I knew that Leni had researched this part of history for years and...
- 9/9/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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