Where to Watch Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero (2001) in the UK

What it's about

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 and crew

Director

Lionel Chetwynd

Writer

Lionel Chetwynd

Starring

William Hurt, Howard Ryshpan, Carol Shamy

Details

Release date

Apr 22, 2001

Language

English, French, German, Italian

Country

United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Awards

2 wins & 4 nominations

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