Wednesday, April 25, 2001 • 4 - 6 p.m.

The real Varian Fry and Miriam
Davenport in the office of the Centre
Americain de Secours (American Relief
Center) on the rue Grignan, Marseille,
fall 1940. In all, Fry succeeded in
rescuing approximately 2,000 refugees,
saving the essence of European culture.

Captured Eichmann, and the screen-
play adaptation of the movie The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, taken
from the novel by Mordecai Richler.
He has drawn generally satisfying
performances from an able cast,
including Hurt, who starts out as a
rather pale figure but gains in strength
and authority as the film progresses.
Documentary filmmaker Pierre
Sauvage (Weapons of the Spirit), who is
preparing his own documentary on
Fry for PBS, has posted a critique of
Varian's War on his Web site, charging
minor and substantial errors in
chronology and character depiction.
Chetwynd acknowledges that some
of the characters represent composites
and that he has striven for "a drama-
tized presentation of reality."
But what matters to Chetwynd, he
says, is that "here was a man who put
his body between the culture of
Europe and the darkness of Europe.
"In that sense, Fry saved a little bit
of all of us. Anyone who, for instance,
has seen the Chagall windows in
Jerusalem will agree to that."
During an earlier news conference,
Chetwynd was asked if the networks,
cable and movie studios weren't pro-
ducing an overdose of Holocaust-relat-
ed productions.
"No," responded Chetwynd. "When
you rotate the prism of that era, time
and time again, each moment comes
up with a different picture." ❑

Varian's War airs 8 10 p.m.
Sunday, April 22, on Showtime.
It will be repeated .10 a.m.
Friday, May 11, and 4 p.m.
Tuesday, May 15.

Richard Trosch, MD

Speaking on:
Having a Successfid Doctor's Visit and Research Update

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