The consul of Bordeaux

The story follows the life, in 1940, of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Consul General of Portugal in Bordeaux, who, in the midst of the French debacle, refused to follow Salazar's orders and issued over 30,000 visas to anyone under threat wishing to flee France. Among them, he saved 10,000 Jews, artists, politicians and strangers from the Nazi yoke. Dismissed from his post, he survived in poverty. He was declared ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in 1966 and rehabilitated in 1980 by the Portuguese authorities.