Resistance (2020) on Netflix
R20202hBiographyDramaHistoryWar
In 1939 Strasbourg, Marcel Marceau performs Chaplin impressions at a cabaret while working in his father's butcher shop. His cousin Georges and Emma bring 123 Jewish orphans into the city.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.6/1010,262 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes56%
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Plot summary
Berlin, 1938: Brown Shirts raid the home of Elsbeth, a Jewish girl. In Strasbourg a year later, Marcel Marceau works in his father's butcher shop and longs for the arts, mime and painting. He does Chaplin impressions at a cabaret. He admires Emma and hopes to marry her. His cousin Georges joins Jews who are bracing for a German invasion, and Georges and Emma escort a Scout troop of 123 Jewish orphans into Strasbourg, where the children are housed in a castle. Terrified and withdrawn at first, they adapt with the help of Marcel's comic talents.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Resistance (2020)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- To play Marcel Marceau, Jesse Eisenberg trained for several months with mime artist and movement coach Lorin Eric Salm, who had studied with Marceau at his Paris school and is a historian of Marceau's work; Salm also choreographed the film's mime scenes.
- With only a few independent and drive-in theaters open because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Resistance topped the weekend box office in its opening weekend by earning $2,490 on one screen.
