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Oscar-nominated producers to make doc on Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau will produce the film alongside co-directer Mike Lerner
Two of the world’s most famous Nazi hunters, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, are getting the documentary treatment.
Alexander Nanau, a Romanian filmmaker whose documentary “Collective” is up for both best documentary and best foreign film at this year’s Oscars on Sunday, will executive produce a film about the Klarsfelds, who have exposed Nazis around the world for decades.
“It has been a huge privilege to have gained the trust and cooperation of Beate and Serge to document their extraordinary lives both past and present,” co-director Mike Lerner said in a statement Monday to The Hollywood Reporter.
Lerner’s 2011 documentary “Hell and Back Again” about a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder was nominated for an Oscar in 2012.
The Klarsfelds have brought several prominent Nazis and French Vichy collaborators to justice, including the infamous Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie.
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