Marcel Marceau a mime against Nazism

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 20 - As often happens, the life of famous people has little known and surprising aspects. This is the case of Marcel Marceau, actor and above all, as a mime, cultural ambassador of the art of silence, a man who at some point in his life challenged Nazism by helping more than a hundred orphans to flee from France to Switzerland. This is the account of 'Resistance - The voice of silence' by JonathanJakubowicz, film with Jesse Eisenberg, Cléménce Poesy and ÉdgarRamírez, which from June 23 will be exclusively in VOD on the main platforms (Sky Primafila - Apple Tv - Chili -Google Play - Infinity - TimVision - Rakuten TV - CgEntertainment - The FIlm Club). In fact, the mime (Eisenberg), recruited by his cousin Georges Loinger, commander of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants unit, together with the politically engaged Emma (Poésy), brought a large group of children from France to neutral Switzerland. Equesto thanks also to the charm of his art. "Marceau kept the children calm while they were running away - said Philippe Mora, son of one of Marceau's resistance companions -. He didn't use his acting skills just to allow the children to feel at ease, he used them to save their lives. If they had been discovered by Germans, none of them would have had a chance. He was mimicking his and their lives. " Until then, young Marcel had only been one of the aspiring Jewish actors who grew up in a Europe occupied by the Germans of the Third Reich and has no intention of getting involved in the conflict and ending up in front of it. He prefers to perform in burlesque clubs, albeit opposed by his father who would like him a butcher like him.
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