The Ice Cream Man

The Ice Cream Man (2024)

When evil darkens your door... You have a choice.

The incredible true story of Ernst Cahn, a beloved Jewish ice cream parlor owner who in 1941 was targeted, arrested, and tortured by the infamous "Butcher of Lyon" Klaus Barbie. The choices Cahn made sparked a series of events that led to over 300,000 Dutch citizens going on strike and shutting down Amsterdam for three days, in what became the largest anti-Nazi protest in history.

Date of release
2024-07-01
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
33m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Robert Moniot

Casting

Interesting facts

The Ice Cream Man is a 2024 short biographical drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Robert Moniot. It stars Noah Emmerich as Ernst Cahn, an ice cream parlor owner, who is targeted by Klaus Barbie, also known as the Butcher of Lyon, after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands during World War II. The film premiered at the Indy Shorts International Film Festival in July 2024.

Production

Robert Moniot wanted Noah Emmerich for the lead role. According to Moniot, "It turns out Noah's father and aunt, with their parents, just like the Cahn family, fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and moved to Amsterdam because everyone assumed it would be neutral. They lived around the corner from the Cahn family and the ice cream parlor. There's some evidence that they actually knew them. Noah's aunt was classmates with Anne Frank.

Filming took place in the Netherlands and Indiana, United States, including the Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor in Columbus. According to Moniot, "We got to shoot most of the Amsterdam scenes and the scenes in The Hague at the actual locations where the events that took place really happened, on the Waterlooplein, inside the prison where Ernst was being held. That's the actual jail where he was held.

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