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Villa Air Bel

Author: Jörg Bundschuh; Kick Film (Firm); Inter Nationes.
Publisher: Bonn : Inter Nationes, 1987.
Edition/Format:   VHS video : VHS tape : Partial animation   Visual material : English
Summary:
The American journalist Varian Fry organised the 'Emergency Rescue Committee' in 1940, to help artists and intellectuals persecuted by Hitler to escape from Europe. In 1940/41 he went to Marseille as the Committee's representative and helped to organise the illegal escape of many of Germany's leading intellectuals and artists imprisoned in France, among them Sigfried Kracauer, Golo Mann, and Max Ernst. His  Read more...
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Named Person: Varian Fry
Material Type: Partial animation, Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Jörg Bundschuh; Kick Film (Firm); Inter Nationes.
OCLC Number: 33117714
Credits: Written and directed by Jörg Bundschuh.
Description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Details: VHS.
Responsibility: Kick Film GmbH.

Abstract:

The American journalist Varian Fry organised the 'Emergency Rescue Committee' in 1940, to help artists and intellectuals persecuted by Hitler to escape from Europe. In 1940/41 he went to Marseille as the Committee's representative and helped to organise the illegal escape of many of Germany's leading intellectuals and artists imprisoned in France, among them Sigfried Kracauer, Golo Mann, and Max Ernst. His headquarters was the Villa Bel Air in Marseille. The film tells the story of this forgotten man, who died in obscurity in 1967.

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