In recent weeks, the city of La Paz has hosted the filming of the film ‘Project K’ from the platform netflix about the search carried out by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld the couple known as the “Nazi hunters” who discovered where the war criminal Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon”, was hiding.
For about two weeks, street closures have been recorded in neighborhoods of La Paz such as Miraflores, Sopocachi, the South zone and in the historic center of the city for the filming of the film, starring the British Tim Roth, the German Diane Kruger and the Frenchman Dany Boon.
This Thursday, the production took place in an old house on colonial Indaburo Street, a street located in the so-called Old Town of the city that was declared Historical, Architectural and Urban Heritage of La Paz in 2020.
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry He also published on his social networks that the country is “in the gaze of world cinema” and that bolivia opened “its doors to large international productions”, regarding Kruger’s visit to the headquarters of that ministry.
The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Paz, and the director of the state institution bolivia in the World, Rodolfo Salinas, “provided a warm welcome” to the actress, “who is in La Paz filming the film ‘Project K‘ to netflix“said the publication, accompanied by some photographs of the meeting.
The film is directed by Yvan Attal, who also wrote the script with Laurent Turner.
“A German woman and a French Jew fall in love and spend ten years hunting Barbie Klaus the former head of the Gestapo in Lyon, facing opposition from powerful forces determined to protect him,” is the review of the film published by the film information page IMDb.
Boon and Kruger play the Klarsfelds and Roth plays Klaus Barbie, although no further details about the film are known for now.
Barbie Klaus He was known as the “Butcher of Lyon” because, among other crimes, he ordered the Gestapo during World War II to murder 50 Jewish children from all over Europe who lived in an orphanage in Lyon (France).
Under the name Klaus Altmann, Barbie He lived in Bolivia for 32 years, between 1951 and 1983, and was connected with politicians and military dictators, did business, prospered from the sale of weapons and had links with drug trafficker Roberto Suárez, the ‘King of Cocaine’.
The couple formed by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, famous for their captures of Nazi criminals hiding in Latin America after the Second World War, located Barbie in bolivia from where he was deported to France in 1983 by the then president Hernán Siles Suazo.
After being extradited, Barbie faced a historic trial in Lyon accused of various crimes against humanity and in 1987 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Four years later, he died of cancer in prison.
