Exclusive: Ben Berkowitz and Max Berkowitz and their company Not A Billionaire (Nab) has optioned the book rights to the storied life of Danish renaissance man Peter Freuchen. Nab will co-produce a limited series based on the life of Freuchen with the legend’s grandson Peter Ittinuar Freuchen. The Berkowitz Brothers will serve as executive producers and the project is supported by The Redford Center and the Jewish Film Institute.
Freuchen was a peg-legged 6’7” Danish Jewish man who explored the Arctic, battled the Nazis, won a game show, starred in the Oscar-winning 1933 film Eskimo — and that was just a handful of his accomplishments. The Berkowitz Brothers and Freuchen’s grandson have done extensive research and secured the rights to several of Freuchen’s autobiographies detailing the story of a man who many said was ahead of his time.
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Freuchen was a peg-legged 6’7” Danish Jewish man who explored the Arctic, battled the Nazis, won a game show, starred in the Oscar-winning 1933 film Eskimo — and that was just a handful of his accomplishments. The Berkowitz Brothers and Freuchen’s grandson have done extensive research and secured the rights to several of Freuchen’s autobiographies detailing the story of a man who many said was ahead of his time.
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- 3/16/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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