The first feature film directed by seasoned French producer Patrick Sobelman, but also by his son Hugo Sobelman, the documentary Golda Maria [+leggi anche:
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Back in 1994, Patrick Sobelman (who has produced somewhere in the region of one hundred feature films, recently including Blind Spot [+leggi anche:
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Produced by Carine Ruszniewski on behalf of GoGoGo Films and by Muriel Meynard on behalf of Agat Films, Golda Maria was granted an advance on earnings (upon the film’s completion) by the CNC and enjoys the support of the French Shoah foundation (La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah). French cinema distribution will be entrusted to Ad Vitam, with sales in the hands of mk2 Films.

Founded in June 2018, Gogogo Films can already lay claim to Raphaël Pfeiffer’s documentary L’Oeil du tigre [+leggi anche:
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