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Inside “Etty”: The €11M European Drama Built From the Hollywood Strikes

How French producers used the WGA strike and patchwork European funding to build Hagai Levi’s ambitious WWII diary adaptation outside the US studio system.

May 15, 2026
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When French production company Les Films du Poisson pitched an adaptation of Etty Hillesum’s Holocaust diaries, the challenge was massive. They wanted to make a Dutch- and German-language series. The…

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