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Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinrich
Mann and Hannah Arendt; and scien-
tist Otto Meyerhof.
To achieve his goal, the scholarly
32-year-old Fry, played by William
Hurt, found himself knee-deep in
forged documents, illegal financial
transactions and games of bluff with
Vichy and German officials.
He is aided by Miriam Davenport
(Julia Ormond), a sexually liberated

uring the Holocaust, there
were thousands of
unknown rescuers, some of
whom paid with broken
careers, social ostracism or even their
lives.
Among them, Raoul Wallenberg and
Oskar Schindler may be the best-
known names. But
their ranks include
63 diplomats from
24 countries.
A fresh entry in
the genre portray-
ing these rescuers is
Varian's War, a two-
hour docudrama
that airs on the
cable network
Showtime 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 22.
The production's
executive producers
include Barbra
Streisand and her
producing partner
Cis Corman.
William Hurt, right, as American woman; U.S. vice
The title charac-
Varian Fry and Julia consul Harry Bingham (Ted
ter is Varian Fry, a
Ormond, center, as Whittall); a shrewd refugee
non-Jew classicist
Miriam
Davenport, Fry's (Matt Craven); a skilled forger
and scholarly edi-
loyal
American friend (Alan Arkin); and a feisty Alma
tor, who in 1940,
and confidante. Werfel Mahler (Lynn
when most
Redgrave), who after divorcing
Americans still
composer
Gustave Mahler had mar-
ignored the Nazi threat and opposed
ried
Franz
Werfel.
the admission of Jewish refugees,
Fry's
job
was not made easier, at
decided to launch his own rescue
least
in
this
version, by Chagall, who
operation.
insisted
that
as a French citizen and
As an envoy of the New York-based
famous
artist
he was immune . to Nazi
Emergency Rescue Committee, he
persecution.
made his way to Marseilles, in unoc-
In a climactic scene, Fry leads his
cupied Vichy France, where thousands
famous charges across the Pyrenees
of refugees were clamoring to escape
Mountains to safety in Spain. The safe
Hitler's juggernaut.
arrival of many of these individuals in
Fry had a specific mission: to rescue
the United States permanently
the great artists and intellectuals, "the
changed the face of American culture.
soul of Europe," and bring them to
The writer-director of Varian's War is
the United States.
Lionel Chetwvnd, whose TV credits
On his list were painters Marc
include Sadat and The Man Who
Chagall and Max Ernst; writers Franz

