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.

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. Convicted of crimes against humanity, he was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1991.

Barbie reign of terror in Lyon was the focus of Moulin, the Cannes competition film from Son of Saul director László Nemes, with Lars Eidinger playing the Butcher of Lyon and Gilles Lellouche as French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.

The Klarsfelds’ pursuit of Barbie was previously dramatized in the 2008 Canal+ television film La Traque, directed by Laurent Jaoui, in which Attal played Serge Klarsfeld opposite Franka Potente as Beate Klarsfeld.

Attal wrote, directed and starred in Breaking Point (2023) and was the co-writer and director of The Accusation (2021), an adaptation of Karine Tuil’s novel about a rape accusation and its aftermath, which premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2021.

Kruger is coming off a starring turn in Fatih Akin post-WW2 drama Amrum, which premiered in Cannes last year, and roles in Paramount+ drama Little Disasters and HBO Max’s Dangerous Liaisons prequel series The Seduction.

Boon, best known for writing, directing and starring in 2008 French box office smash Welcome to the Sticks, had a starring turn in Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud’s dramedy Regarde, released in French theaters last year.

Oscar-nominee Roth was most recently see opposite Cillian Murphy in Tom Harper’s Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man feature for Netflix.

Attal is producing Projet K through his Films Sous Influence outfit, together with NAC Films’ Antoine Pezet and Jérôme Corcos. The film will be shot in France, Bolivia and Belgium.

Here’s your first look at Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie in Season 3 of BBC police drama Vigil.

A teaser shows the pair trekking across a frozen tundra, long-range rifle strapped to their backs, as their latest high-stakes investigation takes them to a remote Arctic research station. “In the Arctic, you don’t understand what’s coming,” a foreboding voiceover says in the words spoken in the 25-second trailer.

In Season 3 of the International Emmy-winning series, DCI Amy Silva (Jones) and DI Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) investigate why a member of a covert British special forces mission has been shot dead in the research station.

They need to both catch the killer and defuse a potential international confrontation, as different nations compete for control of the Arctic and its resources in the changing polar climate.

The first two episodes will drop on Sunday, August 30 in the UK, with eps then running on Sunday and Monday nights at 9pm on BBC One.

Season 3 cast includes Dominic Mafham, reprising his role as Sir Ian Downing, and new cast such as Jeppe Beck Laursen (The Last Kingdom) as Henrick Becken, Svalbard’s Chief of Police; Naomi Yang (Under Salt Marsh) Shen Jia, a microbiologist; Tornike Gogrichiani (Extraction 2) as Fyodor, a Russian colonel; Steven Miller (Dept. Q) and Benjamin Wainwright(Maigret) as Special Boat Service operators; Danusia Samal (Red Eye) as Jasmine Kelly, who works alongside Downing; Eric Godon (In Bruges) as Mayor Korotayev; and Amy Manson (Rebus) as Lorna McCallister, a geologist. Gary Lewis reprises his role as DSU Robertson, who continues to work closely with Amy and Kirsten. 

The six-part season comes from World Productions in association with its parent company, ITV Studios. Tom Edge is writer and creator, with additional writing coming from Tom Mair and Eve Hedderwick Turner. The producer is Marcus Wilson, associate producer is George Aza-Selinger and executive producers are Jake Lushington for World, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC and Edge. Stephanie Fyfe is the commissioning executive for the BBC, and the directors are Gareth Bryn and Faye Gilbert. ITV Studios handles the international distribution.

Vigil Season 1, in which Jones’ Silva was enlisted to solve a murder on a navy submarine in Scottish waters, was BAFTA-nominated and won the International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2021. Season 2, from 2023, focused on a deadly drone attack, launched to nearly nine million viewers and was in the BBC’s top-three most-watched dramas of the year. In the U.S., both seasons stream on Peacock.