Jonathan Jakubowicz Zielinski (born 29 January 1978) is a Venezuelan filmmaker and writer, winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film "Resistance". His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards and was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" in 2005. He is of Polish-Jewish descent.
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Secuestro Express became the nation's biggest box office hit at that time.
His film, Hands of Stone (2016), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (played by Édgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (played by Robert De Niro). Hands of Stone premiered in the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and was warmly received with a 15-minute standing ovation. It is the first Latin movie to have a simultaneous wide release in all of Latin America.
His latest film, Resistance, stars Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, and Clemence Poesy. It tells the story of a group of Boy and Girl Scouts who saved thousands of orphans during the Holocaust. One of them was the legendary resistance fighter Georges Loinger, who met with Jakubowicz and helped him with the research of the film, before he died on 28 December 2018. Georges Loinger was the first cousin of Marcel Marceau and died at 108 years of age.
