Josef Mengele. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons
Israel’s Yes TV will begin filming in the coming days in Israel a new period drama series about the hunt for infamous Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele, it was announced on Tuesday.
The series, which does not yet have a title, will be broadcast on Yes TV and is being produced by Assaf Gil with his company Gil Formats. He is creating the series alongside Moshe Zonder (“Tehran”) and Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz (“The Girl from Oslo”), both of whom are also the scriptwriters. Gabriel Bibliowicz (“Night Therapy”) will direct and the American production company Lionsgate will co-produce the series.
The series is set in 1970 and takes place in both a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley and Germany. German actor Oliver Masucci — who played Ulrich Nielsen in the Netflix show “Dark” and Adolf Hitler in the 2015 film “Look Who’s Back” — will star as Uri, an “alpha male” figure on a kibbutz and one of the pioneers of the state of Israel. He and his wife Anna, played by Ania Bukstein, moved from Eastern Europe to Israel to start a new life after surviving the Holocaust. They stay silent about experiences in the Holocaust for 25 years, until Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, forces Uri to return to Germany and infiltrate a cell of Nazi SS veterans with the goal of finding Mengele, who escaped at the end of World War II.
The series will also star Naya Bienstock, Ido Tako, Rotem Keinan, and Sarit Vino-Elad.
Mengele conducted gruesome and deadly medical experiments on Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. He also carried out torturous experiments on twins and was nicknamed the “Angel of Death.” He fled to Brazil after World War II and eluded capture until he died in 1979 under a false name.
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