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Transatlantic (TV Series)
''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 Varian Fry#Emergency Rescue Committee, 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. Cast and characters Main * Gillian Jacobs as Mary Jayne Gold * Lucas Englander as Albert O. Hirschman, Albert Hirschman * Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry * Ralph Amoussou as Paul Kandjo * Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko * Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove * Grégory Montel as Philippe Frot * Corey Stoll as Graham Patterson Recurring * Moritz Bleibtreu as Walter Benjamin * Alexander Fehling as Max Ernst * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer (born June 12, 1973) is an American writer and lecturer. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize, among others. Career Julie Orringer received her BA in English from Cornell University and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She teaches Fiction at Brooklyn College and the Stanford University Stanford in New York Program. In the past she has also taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, NYU, University of Michigan, Saint Mary's College of California, St. Mary's College, California College of the Arts, and Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in ''The Paris Review'', McSweeney's, ''Ploughshares'', ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', ''The Pushcart Prize Anthology'', ''The Best New Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Fittko
Lisa Fittko (born Elizabeth Eckstein, hu, Eckstein (Ekstein) Erzsébet; 1909 – March 12, 2005) helped many escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The author of two memoirs about wartime Europe, Fittko is also known for her assisting German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin in getting out of France to escape the Nazis in 1940. Biography Lisa Fittko was born into an international Jewish family (Simon, Ekstein) in 1909 in Uzhhorod, Ung County, Kingdom of Hungary. Her large family was active in many spheres of cultural and economic life of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. One branch of her family was active in the Czech national movement, others were prominent industrialists and patrons of the arts. Johann Strauss II, the "Waltz King" was an in-law. She grew up in the company of her aunt Malva Schalek. After her family moved to Berlin, she witnessed the Nazi rise to power, and became involved in anti-fascist politics. She worked as an underground resistance f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodhi May
Jodhi Tania May (''née'' Hakim-Edwards; 8 May 1975) is a British actress. She remains the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, for ''A World Apart'' (1988). Her other film appearances include ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1992), ''Sister My Sister'' (1994), and '' A Quiet Passion'' (2016). Early life May was born Jodhi Tania Hakim-Edwards in 1975 in Camden Town, London.England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2006 atabase online/ref> Her name was later legally changed to Jodhi Tania May. Her mother, Jocelyn Hakim, is an art teacher of French-Turkish descent who as a student arranged to marry artist-designer Malcolm McLaren to obtain citizenship, paying him £50 to marry her in a Lewisham register office in 1972. They later divorced, a move that cost McLaren's grandmother £2,000. May has not publicly identified her father, besides stating he is German. She was educated at Camden School for Girls. May first acted at the age of 12 for '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiram Bingham IV
Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV (July 17, 1903 – January 12, 1988) was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice Consul in Marseilles, France, during World War II, and, along with Varian Fry, helped over 2,500 Jews to flee from France as Nazi forces advanced. Early life Bingham was one of seven sons of former Governor of Connecticut and U.S. Senator Hiram Bingham III and his first wife, Alfreda Mitchell, heiress of the Tiffany and Co. fortune through her maternal grandfather Charles L. Tiffany. His father was also the first American to explore the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu. His great-grandfather Hiram Bingham I and grandfather Hiram Bingham II were among the first Protestant missionaries to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Bingham attended the Groton School and graduated from Yale University in 1925. Career Foreign service Bingham served in Kobe, Japan, as a civilian secretary in the United States Embassy. He worked part-time as a schoolteacher. He traveled to India and Egypt before re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Thompson (actor)
Luke Thompson (born 4 July 1988) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Benedict, the second Bridgerton child, in the Netflix period drama ''Bridgerton'' (2020–present). He debuted in 2013 as Lysander in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the Globe Theatre, earning him Ian Charleson and ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award nominations. He also appeared in the BBC One drama '' In The Club'' (2014–2016). Early life and education Thompson was born in Southampton and brought up in France from the age of two. His father was an engineer and his mother, a teacher. He is one of three children. He attended the Lycée International François-Ier in Fontainebleau, a French school with an Anglophone section, from 1997 to 2005. Upon returning to England in 2006, Thompson spent a year with the Year Out Drama Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. He studied English and Drama at the University of Bristol and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 2013. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Mehring
Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country. Early life He was the son of the translator and writer Sigmar Mehring. His literary career began with the Sturm and Berliner Dada movements. Early writings From the 1920s, he published lyric poetry and satirical prose in various magazines and newspapers such as the famous '' Weltbühne'' or '. He fought against militarism and antisemitism and considered himself an anarchist. He also wrote songs for some of the best cabarets in Berlin: Max Reinhardt's , Rosa Valetti's Café Größenwahn and for Trude Hesterberg's . Artists like George Grosz became close friends. From 1921 to 1928, he lived and worked in Paris. Persecution He was persecuted by the Nazis, particularly by Joseph Goebbels, and consequently fled the country. On 10 May 1933 his books were burnt during the Nazi boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Nay
Jonas Nay (, born 20 September 1990) is a German actor and musician known for starring as Martin Rauch in ''Deutschland 83'' and its sequels, ''Deutschland 86'' and '' Deutschland 89''. Early life Jonas Nay was born in Lübeck in 1990 days before the reunification of Germany. An active boy, he rarely watched television growing up preferring to spend his leisure time on his interests of sport and music. He received his secondary education at the , a ' (selective school) with a music specialty, where he also played in the school's band. Career Because of his interest in the theatre, Nay responded to a newspaper advertisement looking for actors in 2004 and successfully auditioned for a part in the German children's series ' on German TV station NDR. In the first two seasons of the television series, Nay portrayed character Otti Sörensen while using the stage name Jonas Friedebom. In the following years, he played minor roles in several television productions on German tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Lamba
Jacqueline Lamba (17 November 1910 – 20 July 1993) was a French painter and surrealist artist. She was married to the surrealist André Breton. Biography Lamba was born in the Paris suburb of Saint-Mandé, on 17 November 1910 (contrary to at least one source she was not American). Her mother was a talented and well-read woman who had once intended entering medical school, but instead was persuaded into the common woman's role as a housewife. She always spoke highly of her father as well, whom she never had the chance to get to know very well. Her father, José Lamba, died in an automobile accident in 1914, when Lamba was three years old, and her mother, Jane Pinon, died of tuberculosis in 1927. Jacqueline Lamba's love for art began as a little girl growing up in Paris and frequently visiting the Louvre with her mother and sister.(Grimberg, p5) At the Palais Galliera, she saw exhibitions of decorative arts, printed fabrics, and painted paper. This delighted her and proved to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hande Kodja
Hande Kodja (born 6 February 1984) is a Belgian actress. Biography Kodja was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 6 February 1984 to a father of Russian-Turkish descent and a Belgian mother. She began her artistic training in Waterloo, Belgium with music (piano, violin, flute) and drama. After her baccalaureate, she arrives in Paris. She studied for two years at the Cours Florent before completing the entrance examination at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris, where she completed her training before continuing her artistic quest by exploring drawing and sculpture. She is nominated for best female hope for her role in Marieke Marieke by Sophie Schoukens and best actress for Rosenn, alongside Rupert Everett and Béatrice Dalle. She was able to stand up to Charlotte de Turckheim in La Permission, and play the leading female role alongside Gerard Jugnot in The Law of Alexander. Hande Kodja was also the voice of Lisbeth Salander in the radio adaptations of Millenium for F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Breton
André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "Surrealist automatism, pure psychic automatism". Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as ''Nadja (novel), Nadja'' and ''L'Amour fou''. Those activities, combined with his critical and theoretical work on writing and the plastic arts, made André Breton a major figure in twentieth-century French art and literature. Biography André Breton was the only son born to a family of modest means in Tinchebray (Orne) in Normandy, France. His father, Louis-Justin Breton, was a policeman and atheism, atheistic, and his mother, Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie Le Gouguès, was a former seamstress. Breton attended medical school, where he developed a parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Do De Lencquesaing
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (born 25 December 1963) is a French actor and film director. His daughter, Alice de Lencquesaing, is also an actress. Filmography As an actor *''Les dernières heures du millénaire'' (1990, Short) *''Madame Bovary'' (1991) *''La vie des morts'' (1991) as Nicolas *''Le sommeil d'Adrien'' (1991, Short) as Adrien *''De l'histoire ancienne'' (1991, Short) *'' The Sentinel'' (1992) *''Mensonge'' (1993) as Rémi *''Hélas pour moi'' (1993) as Ludovic, un élève *''Ainsi Soient-Elles'' (1995) as Laurent *''Encore'' (1996) as Bruno *''For Sale'' (1998) *''Alissa'' (1998) as Bukovski *''Mécréant'' (1998, Short) as Vincent *''Les infortunes de la beauté'' (1999) as François *''Marée haute'' (1999, Short) *''Sentimental Destinies'' (2000) as Arthur Pommerel *''Anywhere Out of the World'' (2000, Short) as Antoine *'' A Private Affair'' (2002) as Philippe *''Le loup de la côte Ouest'' (2002) as Le commissaire Vianet *''La vie promise'' (2002) as Maquereau 1 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage (surrealist technique), frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and Grattage (art), grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. Ernst is noted for his unconventional drawing methods as well as for creating novels and pamphlets using the method of collages. He served as a soldier for four years during World War I, and this experience left him shocked, traumatised and critical of the modern world. During World War II he was designated an "undesirable forei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
