Go2Films Boards Sales on Entebbe Doc 'To Kill A Nazi'
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- Go2Films boarded sales rights to To Kill A Nazi, a 101-minute USA/France documentary about the 1976 Entebbe raid, with founder/CEO Hedva Goldschmidt calling the film 'a gripping and deeply human story' about memory and justice.
- Jason Alexander narrates the film directed by Penn State professor Boaz Dvir, which makes its world premiere at the Dances With Films festival in LA on June 22 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, followed by an international premiere at the Croatian International Film Festival in Šibenik on July 26.
- Michel Cojot, the film's central figure, confronts 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie in a La Paz alleyway years before finding himself aboard the hijacked Air France flight during Operation Thunderbolt, turning his earlier hesitation into 'a once-in-a-lifetime chance at redemption.'
- Producers say the documentary will 'debunk long-standing myths' about the raid, including eyewitness accounts that German terrorist and Revolutionary Cells commander Wilfried Böse turned his weapon away and directed captives to safety rather than executing them.
- Exclusive interviews with Cojot's son Olivier Cojot-Goldberg, hostage spokesperson Ilan Hartuv, and mission commander Rami Sherman anchor the film, which producers Matthew Einstein and Gayle Zachmann say reexamines the mission through 'fragile decisions under extreme pressure.'
Why it matters: The Entebbe raid's 50th anniversary gives a sales-timed documentary built around an eyewitness counter-narrative to the raid's most contested figure — Wilfried Böse — a clear commercial hook, while Go2Films picking it up ahead of back-to-back festival premieres signals international buyers are sizing up a Holocaust-to-hostage pipeline story as a prestige documentary play.
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