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Transatlantic
Transatlantic

6.6

Transatlantic

NR

Transatlantic

TV-14·2023·7 episodes

Summary

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.

Crew

Creator

Anna Winger

Creator

Daniel Hendler

Status:

Ended

Original Language:

German

Type:

Miniseries

Networks:

Netflix

Keywords

france
holocaust (shoah)
nazi
miniseries
transatlantic
refugees