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‘Call Me by Your Name’ Producers Reunite for Animated Doc About Fredy Hirsch, a German-Jewish Athlete Who Led Children’s Programming in Auschwitz (EXCLUSIVE)
Paradise City and Cor Cordium are producing an animated documentary about the life of Fredy Hirsch who led children’s programming in the death camps.
Paradise City, the production company run by Emilie Georges and Naima Abed, is set to make an animated documentary about the life of Fredy Hirsch, the German Jewish and gay prisoner who led children’s programming in Terezin and Auschwitz. The project marks Paradise City’s first foray into the animation space, and a reunion for producers Spears, Georges, Abed who previously collaborated on Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-nominated “ Call Me By Your Name ” and most recently on Anthony Chen’s “Drift,” starring Cynthia Erivo. The doc will feature original research conducted by Jody Becker, a New York Times editor who first uncovered Hirsch’s story in the early 1990s as a Prague-based reporter, and it will also include historic audio interviews of Holocaust survivors.
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