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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...
- William HurtVarian Fry
- Howard RyshpanKonditerei Owner
- Carol ShamyThe Owner's Wife
- Harald WinterFirst Brownshirt
- Susan AlmgrenEileen Fry
- Barry BlakeDrury
- Noel BurtonThompson
- Emma CampbellClifton's Girl
- Ian FinlayBallroom Man 1
- Maitreya FriedmanBallroom Woman
- Alain GoulemClifton
- Christopher B. MacCabeBallroom Man 2
- Walter MasseySydney
- Tom RackReinhold Neibuhr
- Michael RudderThomas Mann
- Andrea SadlerBallroom Woman 2
- Guy SprungKarl Frank
- Bill CordayDiplomat
- Sheena LarkinMrs. Roosevelt
- Tony RobinowBureaucrat
- Jacques AllardSplendide Clerk
- Alan ArkinFreier
- Victoria BarkoffFrau Willie
- Jude BenyOlder Woman
- Harvey BergerOlder Man