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‘The Ice Cream Man’ Writer-Director Robert Moniot On Crafting “Hope” And “Triumph” In Noah Emmerich-Led World War II Drama
Filmmaker Robert Moniot talks to Deadline about his latest Holocaust Drama short-film The Ice Cream Man
The short recounts the little-known true story of Ernst Cahn (played by Noah Emmerich), a Jewish ice cream shop owner who, along with his family, fled Nazi Germany in 1936 to Amsterdam in hopes of a more peaceful life. But, then the next morning, and this is the funny part, I went to Deadline Hollywood, which I do every day, no matter where in the world we are, and this ad pops up that says, “Send us your short film script about the Holocaust, and we’ll give you $50,000 if you win.” And so, my wife was right [laughs]. MONIOT: I wrote a script based on my short Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon that New Line Cinema optioned, and Noah was going to produce it, so we’ve known each other since the early 2000s.
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