Diane Kruger, Tim Roth, Danny Boon Join Netflix Nazi Hunter Drama ‘Project K’

Diane Kruger and Dany Boon will star as Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the German-Jewish couple who tracked down former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, in Projet K (working title), the new film from Netflix , the streamer announced Monday.

Tim Roth will play Barbie in the drama, from French director Yvan Attal ( The Accusation , Breaking Point ). Attal co-wrote the screenplay together with Laurent Turner, who is known for his work on French Netflix crime series Ganglands .

Projet K follows Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, a German woman and a French Jewish man, whose relationship and shared commitment to justice led them to pursue Barbie, the notorious “Butcher of Lyon” for more than a decade, fighting multiple governments and institutions along the way. Related Stories General News 'Vigil' Season 3 Trailer: Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie Investigate a Murder at an Arctic Research Station - and They Can't Trust Anybody Movies In 'Oasis,' a School Spirals Into Violence - and Three Outcasts Take Refuge in a Forest (Exclusive Trailer)

Serge (Boon), born in Bucharest in 1935 to a Jewish family that relocated to France before World War II, survived a roundup of Jews in Nice as a child. His father was later arrested and killed at Auschwitz. Beate (Kruger), born in Berlin in 1939, was the daughter of a Wehrmacht soldier. The couple married in 1963 and become known as Nazi hunters, tracking down former Nazi officials and Vichy collaborators, including Kurt Lischka, Ernst Ehlers, Kurt Asche and Maurice Papon, in addition to Barbie.

Barbie (Roth) served as head of the Gestapo in Lyon during the German occupation of France, where he was responsible for the deportation and torture of thousands of people, including the roundup of Jewish children from a safe house.

After the war, he worked for United States intelligence services before relocating to Bolivia under the alias Klaus Altmann. The Klarsfelds identified Barbie’s location and alias in 1971 and campaigned for his extradition. Despite state opposition, including from the Bolivian government at the time, Barbie was extradited to France in 1983, and stood trial in Lyon.