Jerusalem-based sales agent Go2Films has closed a slew of EFM deals for Israeli director Roman Shumunov’s Second World War doc-fiction Berenshtein.
Pandastorm Pictures has taken German rights on the title while Fidelity Entertainment has swooped to nab the film for Poland.
Berenshtein is based on the true story of Leonid Berenshtein, the last surviving member of the great partisans who located Hitler’s secret weapon, the V2 missile development facility, as he revisits his past as a soldier in World War II. The film was produced for KAN 11, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, by Metaphor Productions. Lightbulb Film Distribution recently been been released in the UK and Ireland under the revised name 1944: Hitler’s Secret Weapon.
Berenshtein was also earlier sold to Australian channel (SBS), and has secured distribution deals in Japan and Taiwan through Media Move.
“It is both an engaging war movie and a moving portrait of a veteran shaped and shaken by his experiences and actions, despite having fought for a righteous cause,” said Niels Owesen, acquisitions manager at Pandastorm.
EFM slate
Go2Films has several other documentary and fiction titles on its EFM slate including Daniel Raim’s Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen, a portrait of director Norman Jewison and the making of Fiddler On The Roof, Marat Parkhomovsky’s Tel Aviv, which won best debut film at the 2021 Haifa International Film Festival, and feature doc Housewitz by award-winning documentary filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk.
Also on the slate are Shlomo and Tomer Slutzky’s Bronca!, Bobby Lax’s Back In Berlin, Yair Qedar’s The Last Chapter of A.B Yehoshua, and Ariel Talpalar’s As is.
Meanwhlie, Shumunov’s next project is the docuseries Munich 1972, about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. A feature cut is being handled in the market by Global Screen.
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