Transatlantic

Transatlantic is a television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler for Netflix, based on the novel The Flight Portfolio (2019) by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseilles, 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, including Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Marc Chagall and his wife, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, Walter Mehring, Victor Serge, Victor Brauner, and Hans Bellmer. The series closed the 2023 Festival Séries Mania 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