‘June Zero’: Films Boutique & ICM Partners Launch Sales On Jake Paltrow Drama Examining Holocaust Organizer Adolf Eichmann’s Execution
deadline.comFilms Boutique and ICM Partners have launched sales on Jake Paltrow’s upcoming drama June Zero, with Films Boutique handling international rights and ICM overseeing distribution in North America.Paltrow’s first foreign-language production explores true stories surrounding the execution of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann in 1962 Israel, through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious 13-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid regulations, June Zero was written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval.
Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Emmy winner Oren Moverman (Bad Education) produced, with Ron Goldman exec producing alongside Amanda Marshall and Jason Beck of Cold Iron Pictures (God’s Country), Ewa Puszczyńska (Ida), Moshe Edery of United King Films – Israel and Rob DeMartin of Postworks, NY.“The events unfolding in Ukraine these days are a reminder that, indeed, ‘The past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past,’ and that it’s worth continually trying to find new ways to access and listen to history. “June Zero” is an attempt at this,” said Paltrow. “One of the chambers inside the heart of this movie pumps in Kyiv where we filmed part of it, and where several of our crew members are now under this incomprehensible assault.”“”JUNE ZERO” deals with the trial and death of Eichmann but always
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