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The Woman with Red Hair
- Michael Schatz
- Set Up
- Drama
- 2016
- Black List
- 76.4
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Market: Tue, 24 May 2016Sold: Sun, 04 Dec 2016
Producer: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
AgentAdrian Garcia (Paradigm) , ,
ManagerJeff Portnoy (Bellevue)
ProductionBerlanti Productions
Producer: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
AgentAdrian Garcia (Paradigm) , ,
ManagerJeff Portnoy (Bellevue)
ProductionBerlanti Productions
This is the extraordinary true story of Johanna “Hannie” Schaft, a young woman who droppedout of college to join the Dutch Resistance during WWII, eventually becoming one of their most 10 talented assassins and one of the Nazis’ most wanted enemies.
A university student becomes a fierce Nazi assassin in German-occupied Netherlands, joining a secret resistance that places her, her friends, and her own life jeopardy.
A young Dutch law student joins the Resistance and becomes known as the lethal "woman with the red hair", feared by collaborators and the Gestapo alike.
Following the death of her best friend, a young female living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands joins an underground rebellion and becomes an elite assassin.
Film
Female Protagonist, Character Study, Biopic, Drama, Romance, Period, Thriller, War, Espionage/Spy, Prison, Agent, Female, Friends/Friendship, Relationship, Secret Identity, Undercover, Violence/Violent, WWII
118
R
High
F
White / European
24
Attractive
Anthropoid, Allied, Atonement, Flame and Citron, Black Book, The Girl with the Red Hair
World War II Netherlands/7-8 years
Haarlem, Netherlands, Amsterdam, various houses and apartments, city streets, butcher, bomb shelter, various penitentiaries, beach, nightclub, cafe
JOHANNA “HANNIE” SCHAFT (24) attempts a hit on a prominent Nazi, WILLEM ZIRKZEE (47), in an alleyway in Haarlem, The Netherlands. However, her pistol jams and Zirkzee shoots wildly while fleeing. Hanna lands the hit and kills him, but not before she is hit in the leg.
We then flash back to seven years earlier, 1938. Hannie’s hair in the first scene was jet black, but now it is distinctively red. Her parents, PIETER (53) and AAFJE (53), emotionally send Hannie off to college in Amsterdam.
Hannie has trouble making friends at school. She goes to a meeting of the Amsterdam Female Students Association, where she befriends SARAH (18). Sarah studies linguistics, but Hannie wants to go into politics. Later on at Hannie’s apartment, Sarah views Hannie’s favorite book, “The League of Nations,” where on the title page, written in the left hand corner, there is the name “A. Schaft.” Hanna decries Hitler, and Sarah admires her ambitions to promote world peace.
Some time later, Sarah and Hannie celebrate Hannie’s becoming the President of the “Gemma” society, a society working towards world peace, a pamphlet for the group showing their motto, “Gemmare e minoribus appentinus” –– “From small things we aspire towards the...
We then flash back to seven years earlier, 1938. Hannie’s hair in the first scene was jet black, but now it is distinctively red. Her parents, PIETER (53) and AAFJE (53), emotionally send Hannie off to college in Amsterdam.
Hannie has trouble making friends at school. She goes to a meeting of the Amsterdam Female Students Association, where she befriends SARAH (18). Sarah studies linguistics, but Hannie wants to go into politics. Later on at Hannie’s apartment, Sarah views Hannie’s favorite book, “The League of Nations,” where on the title page, written in the left hand corner, there is the name “A. Schaft.” Hanna decries Hitler, and Sarah admires her ambitions to promote world peace.
Some time later, Sarah and Hannie celebrate Hannie’s becoming the President of the “Gemma” society, a society working towards world peace, a pamphlet for the group showing their motto, “Gemmare e minoribus appentinus” –– “From small things we aspire towards the...