VARIAN'S
WAR
Canada, 2001, English,
121 min., Director: Lionel Chetwynd
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The
story of American Varian Fry, who at great risk to his own life, traveled
to Marseilles in 1940 to rescue prominent European artists as well as
2,000 others from Nazi persecution. He built, on his own and without
the help of the U.S. government, an elaborate rescue network that managed
to save some of the most influential cultural figures of our age, including
Marc Chagall, Franz Werful, Alma Werful Mahler and many others. The
film stars William Hurt, Julia Ormand, Lynn Redgrave and Alan Arkin.
Sunday, Jan. 20,
7:00 p.m., Manship Theatre Shaw Center
Speaker: Kenneth Hoffman, Director of Education, National World War
II Museum, New Orleans.
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