The romance between the well-known mime and neighborhood girl Emma is well-known to anybody who has seen Resistance, the film based on the life of Marcel Marceau, played by Jesse Eisenberg.
The movie tells the tale of how Marcel Marceau, a mime artist, assisted Jewish orphan children in finding safety during the Second World War. Emma, a native Strasbourg girl with whom Marceau falls in love, is portrayed by Clémence Poésy.
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In the movie’s primary plot, Marceau, Emma, Georges, and 24 kids go to the Swiss Mountains through eastern French forests. Despite making three trips to bring Jewish children from France to Switzerland for their safety, Marcel Marceau is unable to do the same for Emma.
This sad narrative touched the hearts of a lot of people, which led to social media chatter about finding out if the movie’s interpretation of Marceau and Emma’s romance was true.
In truth, despite its claim as a biographical drama based on the life of Marcel Marceau, a large portion of Resistance is made up. Specifically, the relationship between Marceau and Emma is fake, because she did not exist. The character as well as the romance were just created for the purposes of the film’s story.
Before Resistance was released in December 2018, Marceau’s family officially condemned it. They provided Variety with a statement in which they distanced themselves from the initiative and insisted that they had no part in its conception. The fact that it was widely advertised in media outlets as a genuine narrative despite having been heavily exaggerated was also attacked by Marceau’s relatives.
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In fact, Marcel Marceau was married to Ella, a French-Polish choreographer and mime artist. The pair got married in 1966 and got separated around 1975.
Throughout his life, Marceau was married three different times. According to obituaries, Marcel Marceau was wed to his wife Anne Sicco till his passing.
