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- Resistance stars Jesse Eisenberg and tells the true story of how mime artist Marcel Marceau helped orphaned Jewish children to safety in the second world war.
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Resistance stars Jesse Eisenberg and tells the true story of how mime artist Marcel Marceau helped orphaned Jewish children to safety in the second world war. I had no idea. I had only ever...
- Deborah Ross
Mar 9, 2020 · In this remarkable true story, Jesse Eisenberg plays French mime-to-be Marcel Marceau, who helped lead Jewish orphans to safety during World War 2. By Peter Debruge. IFC Films. At the...
Mar 26, 2020 · Outlining the true story of how the young Marcel Marceau, the renowned French actor and mime, helped Jewish orphans survive Nazi-occupied France, the movie aims to wrestle uplift from tragedy.
- Jonathan Jakubowicz
After 1941, Marceau's story intertwines with the menacing Klaus Barbie, who arrives in Lyon in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of southern France. His aim is to eliminate the Resistance, a mission that he conducts ruthlessly by bribing collaborators and conducting brutal executions in an empty swimming pool at Gestapo Headquarters.
Mar 27, 2020 · Resistance. 2020. R. 2h. IMDb RATING. 6.5 /10. 9K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 2:29. 3 Videos. 42 Photos. Biography Drama History. The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II. Director. Jonathan Jakubowicz. Writer.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Jonathan Jakubowicz
- 2020-03-27
It’s a story that deserves to be told, but more honestly and with more verve than director Jonathan Jakubowicz does in his tepid 2020 film Resistance. Marceau was still a teenager at the onset of World War II and he remained in France during the occupation partly in order to help fight the Nazis.
Mar 27, 2020 · Led by a charismatic performance from Jesse Eisenberg, Resistance is a harrowing story but often feels as if it bit off more than it could chew. The film opens on a Jewish family getting ready for bed, with a young girl named Elsbeth (played by Game of Thrones ' Bella Ramsey) listening to her father (Edgar Ramírez) tell her a bedtime story.
