Israeli actress Shira Haas is set to star in a new Netflix production, The Boys from Brazil, by the creator of The Crown, Peter Morgan. The mini-series is an adaptation of Ira Levin’s acclaimed 1976 classic novel The Boys from Brazil, which in 1978 was adapted into a film starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier.
The five-part adaptation will star Jeremy Strong, August Diehl, Daniel Brühl, Gillian Anderson, Shira Haas and Lizzy Caplan.
Set across three decades, from the immediate aftermath of World War II through the political turbulence of the 1970s, The Boys from Brazil follows Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann in his lifelong crusade to bring Nazi fugitives to justice — a crusade that has cost him nearly everything.
When one of his young protégées working undercover in Brazil learns of a shocking Nazi plan, Liebermann is in a race against time to expose an unimaginable truth: Doctor Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt, a sadistic Nazi scientist believed to be long-dead, is alive and orchestrating a diabolical project to spark the rise of a Fourth Reich.
Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) will take on the role of Yakov Liebermann alongside August Diehl (A Hidden Life, Inglourious Basterds) as Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt. Daniel Brühl (Rush, Inglourious Basterds) stars as Von Harteneck, and Gillian Anderson (The Crown, Sex Education) joins as Frieda Steiner.
Shira Haas (Unorthodox, Captain America: Brave New World) plays Hannah Liebermann.
There’s no word yet on the release date, but filming commences next month in the United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain.