Désobéir (Aristides de Sousa Mendes) (2008)

Name: Désobéir (Aristides de Sousa Mendes)
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019-07-28T15:59:15+02:00
Rating: 3
Cast: Bernard Le Coq, Nanou Garcia, Lionel Lingelser

Drama | 100 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Joël Santoni

Stars: Bernard Le Coq and Nanou Garcia

IMDb score: 8,0 (55)

Releasedate: 12 June 2009

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Désobéir (Aristides de Sousa Mendes) plot

Against the dark mass of French collaborators during the Second World War, the silhouette of Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches (1885-1954) stands out sharply. In 1939 and 1940 the elderly Portuguese diplomat, before the neutral Salazar regime consul in Bordeaux, stubbornly ignores express orders not to issue visas to 'stateless persons'. He thus saves thirty thousand persons, including twelve thousand Jews, from arrest and concentration camp.