Castle Hill Prods. has acquired the U.S. rights to
Perlasca, Alberto Negrin's drama about Giorgio Perlasca, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Perlasca was an Italian businessman who passed himself off as the Spanish Consul in Budapest, Hungary, in an effort to save more than 5,000 Jews from Nazi extermination near the end of World War II. The movie is a co-production between Rai Fiction, France 2 and Focus Film.