Varian's War (2000)
Cast: William Hurt (Varian Fry), Lynn Redgrave, Matt Craven (Beamish) Julia Ormond (Miriam Davenport), Maury Chaykin (Marcello), Alan Arkin (Freier), Barry Brake (Drury) .
Director: Lionel Chetwynd
Movie based on the life of New York born and Harvard-educated Varian Fry, an American journalist in Berlin in the 1930s. In 1940 he went to Marseilles to rescue more than 2,000 people from the Nazi horror. Among those he saved were artists, writers and scientists.
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