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Introducing Marcel Marceau, resistance fighter — starring Jesse Eisenberg

JL;DR SUMMARY The film "Resistance," starring Jesse Eisenberg, highlights the extraordinary yet lesser-known story of Marcel Marceau, a French-Jewish mime who played a pivotal role in the Resistance during World War II. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustWorld War IiResistanceFrench ResistanceJesse EisenbergJewish OrphansMarcel MarceauArt And ActivismJonathan Jakubowicz

Places mentioned

France
"The film dramatizes the heroic actions of the Resistance and the Jewish French Boy Scouts as they led 10,000 Jewish orphans out of France, across the Swiss Alps, and into Switzerland, led by the iconic mime Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg)"
Switzerland
"The film dramatizes the heroic actions of the Resistance and the Jewish French Boy Scouts as they led 10,000 Jewish orphans out of France, across the Swiss Alps, and into Switzerland, led by the iconic mime Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg)"
Bavaria, Germany
"We were shooting in Munich, Nuremberg and Bavaria, Jakubowicz said."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"And then there was the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Both men, who speak to me over the phone from Los Angeles, identify as Jews, culturally and ethnically; both lost members of their families to the Holocaust."
Caracas, Capital, Venezuela
"By contrast, Jakubowicz who was born in Caracas, Venezuela, heard about it all the time, from surviving grandmothers, an aunt, and from his parents whose lives were defined by it, not least because they were born in the late 40s to Holocaust survivors."
Venezuela
"According to him, Venezuela was extremely open to Jews."
East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
"Eisenberg grew up in East Brunswick, N.J, and was largely shielded from conversations about the Holocaust."
New York City, New York, United States
"Simi Horwitz is a feature writer and film reviewer based in New York City."
Poland
"He has explored the Holocaust before, most notably in The Revisionist, an Off-Broadway drama that focused on the evolving relationship between a young self-absorbed writer (Eisenberg) and his Holocaust surviving cousin, Maria (Vanessa Redgrave) still living in Poland."

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