Transatlantic (2023)
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII. Transatlantic is a historical drama television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseilles, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023.
- First aired
- 2023-04-07
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 7
- Country
- DE
- Language
- de
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10
- Status
- Ended
Networks: Netflix
Created by: Anna Winger, Daniel Hendler
Cast
- Gillian Jacobs as Mary Jayne Gold
- Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry
- Lucas Englander as Albert Hirschman
- Corey Stoll as Graham Patterson
- Ralph Amoussou as Paul Kandjo
- Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko
- Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove
- Grégory Montel as Philippe Frot
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Walter Benjamin
- Rafaela Nicolay as Margaux