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Israel’s Yes Boards ‘Red City,’ From ‘Lupin’ Co-Creator François Uzan and Ofer Seker, Behind HBO Max’s ‘Uri & Ella’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Telling the ‘untold’ story of how Israel was won, ’Red City’ is set in 1957 in Eilat, home to Holocaust-surviving gangsters.
TOLEDO, Spain — Israeli broadcaster Yes TV and production arm Yes Studios have boarded development on “Red City,” from ‘Lupin’ co-creator François Uzan and Ofer Seker, behind HBO Max’s “Uri & Ella.” Yes joins Morgane Le Moine who produces “Red City” for Paris-based production house First Love, which backed admired Series Mania project “Dust and Coal.” “Red City” weighs in as one of the hottest projects at this week’s Conecta Fiction, not only because of the talent behind it, but also its setting: Israel’s southernmost settlement of Eilat in 1957, described by the series makers as “a godforsaken place, lost in the desert and filled with misfits, new immigrants…but also a very special kind of criminal: Holocaust survivors that the authorities were reluctant to lock up and decided to ship out to the other side of the country.”
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