Diane Kruger and Dany Boon will play Nazi hunters on the trail of Tim Roth’s Klaus Barbie, in Projet K for Netflix.
Kruger and Boon will portray Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the real-life husband-and-wife Nazi hunters in the Netflix France film. The couple spent years tracking down Nazis after the end of World War II. Famously, they pursued Klaus Barbie who was head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews, he became known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’.
Yvan Attal directs Projet K (WT) from a screenplay he wrote with Laurent Turner.
Cameras are now rolling on the movie, which will shoot in the French cities of Paris and Lyon, as well as in Bolivia and Belgium.
Here’s the synopsis: Nothing destined Beate, a German, and Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jew, to meet. But their love and their shared thirst for justice would drive them to relentlessly hunt down Klaus Barbie, who was head of the Gestapo in Lyon. A ten-year pursuit waged against every power that tried to stop them.
Kruger revisits World War II and its aftermath, having previously starred in Inglourious Basterds. Boon’s credits include Welcome to the Sticks. Roth, who plays Barbie, has a long list of film and TV credits including Pulp Fiction and Tin Star.
The movie joins a Netflix French film slate that includes, per Deadline’s exclusive, Call My Agent: The Movie, which bows in September. The streamer’s Gallic slate also includes Quasimodo and sequels to Under Paris (Sous la Seine) and Ad Vitam.
Screen was first to report that Projet K is underway.
