knowingly or unknowingly, Anna Wing He always writes series that reflect the present throughout history. happened with Germany 83The perfect espionage drama with his wife, Jörg, in the throes of the Cold War: “We wrote the series as Putin signed the annexation of Crimea to Russia and old divisions between Russia and the West resurfaced in the 1990s. Surface” , explains in an individual interview with this newspaper.
On the other hand, before the premiere ‘Unconventional’With Deborah Feldman’s successful adaptation of her memories of salvation, our interviewer was already working on what would happen in the end. “Transatlantic” (Netflix, Friday 7)Description of the exploits of Varian Fry (michael smith), American literary journalist who arrived in Marseille in the mid-1940s Chairman of the Emergency Rescue Committee, an organization set up to help those persecuted by the Nazis and French collaborators escape to safety.. Among them, many artists and writers, especially Jews; people love the artist maximum ernst or think Hannah Arendt.
She has lived in Berlin for twenty years, but Winger is an American, the daughter of anthropologist parents, along with many of her colleagues who came to the country as refugees during World War II; some were helped by Fry himself. The writer-producer (formerly a photographer) revisited these stories during the 2015 European refugee crisis.As Mark Twain said, “History never repeats itself, but it often does.” We see homeless, stateless people displaced in every war. It happens in cycles and unfortunately it’s happened again.”. And once again just days after filming began in Marseille for ‘Transatlantic’. “Of course, we didn’t expect to shoot this series as a new war broke out in Europe. My refugee crisis was inspired by another, but we didn’t expect to shoot it when the third one broke out.”
many layers of fiction
Thinking about how to remember the story for a while, Winger learned of the existence of the story. Julie Orringer’s novel ‘The Flight Portfolio’ served as a source of context and an important source of inspiration for the psychological processes of Fry, who is described here as a gay man. This last episode is not fiction (Varian’s son confirmed his father’s secret identity in 2019), but many other episodes read: “The series is a highly fictionalized retelling of a true story, based on another story that is already very fictional in itself.”, warns potential suspects.
Far from being a serious documentary drama, ‘Transatlantic’ a very lively mix of drama, comedy and romance. Winger, among them Mary Jayne Gold (Gillian Jacobs), the wealthy Chicago heir or German-Jewish intellectual Albert O. Hirschman, who invested in his own trust fund (Lucas Englander), later a famous economist in the United States. “When looking for a shadow, especially I was thinking about the kind of Hollywood films written by many European screenwriters in exile at the time. Titles like ‘To be or not to be’ or ‘Casablanca’. They used humor, romance, and many other attractive tools to process the pain of what was going on in Europe.“.
The co-creator of Transatlantic (along with his close colleague Daniel Hendler) wanted to include light moments in tragedy to remind us that we are still human, even in the worst of crises. “Humor, creativity, friendship, sex, romance… All of these can shine a light in the dark. It makes us feel alive when everything else sucks.”