- Source: Transatlantic (TV series)
Transatlantic is a historical drama miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseille, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023.
Cast and characters
= Main
=Gillian Jacobs as Mary Jayne Gold
Lucas Englander as Albert Hirschman
Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry
Ralph Amoussou as Paul Kandjo
Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko
Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove
Grégory Montel as Philippe Frot
Corey Stoll as Graham Patterson
= Recurring
=Moritz Bleibtreu as Walter Benjamin
Alexander Fehling as Max Ernst
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as André Breton
Hande Kodja as Jacqueline Lamba
Jonas Nay as Walter Mehring
Luke Thompson as Hiram "Harry" Bingham
Jodhi May as Peggy Guggenheim
Rafaela Nicolay as Margaux
Birane Ba as Jacques "Petit" Kandjo
Henriette Confurius as Lena Fischmann
Lolita Chammah as Lorène Letoret
Yoli Fuller as Souleymane Toure
Nadiv Molcho as Bill Freier
Morgane Ferru as Ursula Hirschmann
Alexa Karolinski as Hannah Arendt
Hanno Koffler as Hans Fittko
Yulia Antoshchuk as Ukrainian Woman
Ian Turiak as Wealthy Businessman
Episodes
Production
= Development
=Transatlantic was the first project announced in September 2021 under the creative partnership of Netflix and Anna Winger's Berlin-based production company Studio Airlift. The seven-part series is created by Winger and Daniel Hendler, and produced by Winger and Camille McCurry. Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond and Mia Meyer led the directing team. In a March 2023 interview with Deadline Hollywood ahead of Transatlantic's Séries Mania screening, Winger said she took inspiration from the film Casablanca (1942).
= Casting
=Casting was reportedly under way as of January 2022. The cast were announced in March 2022, with Gillian Jacobs, Grégory Montel, Cory Michael Smith, and Corey Stoll set to star alongside Lucas Englander, Ralph Amoussou, Deleila Piasko, and Amit Rahav.
Moritz Bleibtreu, Alexander Fehling, Jonas Nay, Lolita Chammah, Luke Thompson, Jodhi May, Rafaela Nicolay and Henriette Confurius round out the cast.
= Filming
=Principal photography began on location in Marseille, France in February 2022.
Although the real Hôtel Splendide in Marseille is now used as administrative offices, producers were able to modify the environment and film on location at No. 31 Boulevard d'Athènes. The scenes depicting Villa Air-Bel were filmed at Château Mont Vallon outside the town of Vitrolles.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Ably dramatizing a deadly serious chapter of World War II history while also remembering to have fun, Transatlantic is a visually sumptuous throwback to classic Hollywood melodramas." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the miniseries a score of 64 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
However, the series has been criticised for its historical inaccuracies.
References
External links
Transatlantic on Netflix
Transatlantic at IMDb
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