RESISTANCE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Clémence Poésy (In Bruges), Félix Moati (Irreplaceable), Vica Kerekes (Men in Hope), Matthias Schweighöfer (Valkyrie), Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul), Ed Harris (The Truman Show), Bella Ramsey (Judy), Martha Issová (The Conception of My Younger Brother), Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters), Édgar Ramírez (The Bourne Ultimatum), Alicia von Rittberg (Fury)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), director, writer, producer, editor; Marco Beckmann (The Most Beautiful Day), Carlos Garcia de Paredes (Sin Pepitas en la Lengua), Claudine Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), Dan Maag (Frau Ella), Stephanie Schettler-Köhler (Auerhaus), Thorsten Schumacher (Brooklyn), Matthias Schweighöfer (The Manny), Lars Sylvest (Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill) and Patrick Zorer (Jesus Loves Me), producers; Angelo Milli (Seven Pounds), composer; M.I. Littin-Menz (The Year of the Tiger), cinematographer; Alexander Berner (Cloud Atlas), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

During the Second World War, aspiring mime artist Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) leads a group of Jewish Boy Scouts as they work with the French Resistance to save the lives of 10,000 orphans from the Nazis…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Jesse Eisenberg plays the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in a film that chronicles his honorable and inspirational attempts to fight back against the Nazis.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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