Transatlantic: Is it coming in April 2023? Here’s what we know about it
Transatlantic was developed by Anna Winger as part of a contract between Netflix and the author and producer. The drama series is based on Julie Orringer’s 2019 book The Flight Portfolio and is motivated by actual events that occurred in Marseilles, France in the early 1940s. Transatlantic depicts the tale of American journalist Varian Fry who visits Nazi-occupied France and arranges for authors and artists to get safely to America. Transatlantic, a production by Winger and Netflix that was shot in English, German, and French, is the first of several multinational dramas that will likely be available on Netflix in the upcoming months and years.
Moreover, Transatlantic is a movie that you just must add to your queue if you enjoy historical dramas and fictionalized accounts of true events. Check out all we currently know about Transatlantic, including the narrative, release date, trailer, cast, and characters, as you wait for the series to premiere.
Transatlantic: Potential Cast
For all that we know, the network is yet to update about the cast of the upcoming series which is why we cannot provide you the exact list of the entire cast members. As per the reports, following is the potential cast of Transatlantic.
- Gillian Jacobs
- Lucas Englander
- Cory Michael Smith
- Ralph Amoussou
- Deleila Piasko
- Gregory Montel
- Corey Stoll
- Moritz Bleibtreu
- Alexander Fehling
- Jonas Nay
- Lolita Chammah
- Luke Thompson
- Jodhi May
- Rafaela Nicolay
- Henriette Confurius
- Yoli Fuller
- Nadiv Molcho
- Ralph Amoussou
- Yulia Antoshchuk
Transatlantic: What is the plotline?
Transatlantic is based on Julie Orringer’s 2019 book The Flight Portfolio, which was also influenced by actual events that occurred in France between 1940 and 1941. These actual events are fabricated and exaggerated in the Netflix series. Apparently, as a foreign reporter in Berlin in 1935, Harvard-educated writer Varian Fry saw the appalling treatment by the Hitler dictatorship and subsequently wrote about it. During the takeover of France in 1940, Fry founded the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) to aid refugees with the assistance of his friends and the backing of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (who, ironically, was portrayed by a different Gillian in Showtime’s The First Lady). With $3,000 and a plan to save several authors, thinkers, and artists, he traveled to Marseilles.
Fry ultimately spent more than a year in Marseilles, where he organized safe passage for travelers through Spain and Portugal, raised money, and created fictitious documents. Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Wilhelm Herzog, Jacques Hérold, Marc Chagall, and a lengthy list of others were among those he was able to preserve. Later, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Israel, designated Fry as the first American to be deemed “Righteous Among the Nations.”
Transatlantic: Official Trailer
