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In 1935, American journalist Varian Fry went to Berlin and understood what Hitler was capable of. He knew just how much the sense of freedom, in other words art, was imperiled. In 1949, in Marseille, without resources or support, he would save more than 1,500 artists and intellectuals from the Nazis – among them Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and André Breton. They all gathered in a large country house called the "Château espère-visa". This place became a landmark for the political, artistic and intellectual avant-gardes resisting the perils of the time. By protecting these personalities, Fry saved a part of the European heritage which would give rise to the transatlantic avant-garde.

France - 2008 - 30 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 • PAL - Colour

Director Valérie Manuel Writer Valérie Manuel Camera Bob Electon Sound Arnaud Hudelot Editing Jean-François Bourret Music Laurent Lesourd

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