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THE GREEN PRINCE

Nadav Schirman
95' / 2014 / Germany, Israel, United Kingdom
English
English and spanish subtitled

Audience vote 6.77

This real life thriller tells the story of one of Israel’s prized intelligence sources, the son of a top Hamas leader. Under the code name “The Green Prince”, he is recruited to spy on his own people for over a decade. Focusing on his complex relationship with his handler, this is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, impossible choices - and of a friendship that defies all boundaries.
 
Set against a backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman’s THE GREEN PRINCE is a multi layered psychological thriller that will challenge people's preconceptions of the on-going conflict in the region.  Combining exclusive first person testimony, dramatic action sequences and never-before-seen archive footage, this is a powerful cinematic experience - a spy thriller that will have audiences on the edge of their seats.  The film was produced by Schirman along with two-time Oscar winner Simon Chinn (“Man on Wire" and "Searching for Sugar Man”) and Oscar winner John Battsek (“One Day in September”, "The Tillman Story").

Main Festivals & Awards

Sundance IFF 2014 - Audience Award in World Documentary Competition

Director's Biography

Schirman’s first feature documentary, THE CHAMPAGNE SPY (Germany-Israel 2008) won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary, was nominated for the European Academy Award and won the John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature as well as many other international awards and nominations. It is currently being adapted into a large-scale fiction production by Oscar and Palme D’or winning director Bille August and Oscar nominated producer Uli Limmer.

His second feature documentary, IN THE DARK ROOM (Germany-Finland-Israel-Italy-Rumania-Hungary 2013) produced by Karl Baumgartner and Pandora Films, is being released in Europe in fall 2013. It is the second part of a trilogy that continues with:

THE GREEN PRINCE (Germany-UK-Israel 2014), based on New York Times non-fiction best seller “Son of Hamas”, THE GREEN PRINCE is produced by Schirman’s Frankfurt based A-List Films, with two times Oscar winning producer Simon Chinn (“Searching for Sugar Man” and “Man on Wire”) and Oscar winning producer John Battsek (“One Day in September”, “The Tillman Story”, “The Imposter”)

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