Number: 856

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...

Cast:

William Hurt Varian Fry

Julia Ormond Miriam Davenport

Matt Craven Beamish

Maury Chaykin Marcello

Alan Arkin Freier

Medium: DVD R/RW, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Location: Drawer 5 Slot 13

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3