Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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Bouillon de Culture - Varian Fry

תוכנית טלוויזיה בהנחיית ברנרד פיבו, על חסיד אומות העולם וריאן פריי Varian Fry

Director : Elisabeth Preschey

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 77

Language : French

Das Letzte Visum: Passage unbekannt, Varian Fry und das Emergency Rescue Committee

Director : Karin Alles

Production Year : 1988

Duration : 74

Language : German

And Crown Thy Good - Varian Fry in Marseille

Defying the Nazis, the French Vichy regime, and his own government, Varian Fry, a dapper, 32 year-old intellectual, led a unique mission that helped to save some 2,000 artists, intellectuals, and anti-Nazi refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish.

Director : Piere Sauvage

Production Year : 2006

Language : English

Fatherland

Grief is usually a reaction to the loss of a beloved person or of some abstract idea which stands for this person, such as fatherland, freedom, ideals." writes Sigmund Freud in his leading work "Grief and Melancholy". This definition and the account by Hannah Ahrendt of the behaviour of German intellectuals in 1933 were the basis for the Jewish filmmaker Nurith Aviv to talk with her 4 German friends about fatherland and loss. In the background we see the train ride through Berlin, the city of the filmmaker's ancestors.

Director : נורית אביב

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 30

Varian Fry: The Artists' Schindler

The extraordinary true story of Varian Fry, a young American who set off for Germany in 1941 with a list containing the name of over 200 prominent artists and intellectuals being tracked down by the German SS. His intention: to help these targets of Nazi persecution escape into neutral territories. By the end of the war he had saved over 2,000 people, including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, and Marcel Duchamp.

Director : David Kerr

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 51

Varian's War

True story about the American Schindler, the journalist Varian Fry, who during the Second World War, saved more than two thousand Jews and “degenarate” artists from Vichy France destined for extermination. Among those who owe their lives to him are the artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, the philosopher Hannah Arendt, and the authors Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel. A short lesson in the history of the Holocaust.

Director : Lionel Chetwynd

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 122

Language : English

Assignment Rescue - The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee

Documentary film about Varian Fry, an American Righteous Among the Nations. Fry was a young journalist when he volunteered in 1940 to travel to France for the Emergency Rescue Committee, an organization that was established in the United States after the Nazi occupation of France for the purpose of rescuing intellectuals and political refugees who were being persecuted by the Nazis in Vichy France. In time he succeeded in rescuing from the Nazis more than 2000 artists, authors and intellectuals. Includes archival films and testimonies. Narration by the American actress Meryl Streep.

Director : Richard Kaplan

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 27

Language : English

Transatlantic

A television mini series. In 1940, Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers to help escape within a few weeks. He stayed more than a year, working to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and arrange journeys across Spain and Portugal, where the refugees would embark for safer ports. Among those artists and writers were Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall.

Director : Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond, Mia Maariel Meyer

Production Year : 2023

Language : English