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The Nansen Passport (2016)

Name: The Nansen Passport
Director: Valentine Varela
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2016-06-21
Duration: 56 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Valentine Varela, Gérard Desarthe, Sylvie Aznavourian, Katia Boudoyan, Irène Companeez

56 min · France · Dir. Valentine Varela

Documentary History 2016 movies

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.