Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #88 My Enemy’s Enemy

#88.My Enemy’s Enemy

Director/Writer: Kevin Macdonald
Producer/Production Company: Rita Dagher , Kevin Macdonald
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

The Gist: This is about Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal known as “the Butcher Of Lyon.” Barbie was also the subject of Marcel Ophuls’ Oscar winning 1988 documentary Hotel Terminus, but Macdonald’s film will have a very different focus. The film will chronicle how Barbie worked with the CIA after the war and how the Nazi felon was protected by the US.

Fact: Equally agile in documentary and narrative storytelling forms, MacDonald has gone back and forth between docu and fiction: Touching the Void (2004), The Last King of Scotland (2006) and is helming studio pic State of Play.

See It: This is a perfect companion piece for another doc film Terror’s Advocate, and acts as another mind-boggling example of how American foreign policy is cause for many blunders.

Release Date/Status?: Presently in the TBA status, expect a precise limited release campaign perhaps in the spring or fall movie-going season.