COLUMBUS, Ind. – Washington Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, will be closed on Wednesday, March 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and again on Thursday, March 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for film production.
The Columbus Board of Works approved a special use of Right of Way request for the shooting of the movie.
Writer/Director Robert Monoit, of Driver Productions, is shooting “The Ice Cream Man” in Columbus. It is a motion picture about a Jewish ice cream parlor owner in 1941 Amsterdam named Ernst Cahn who helped spur what became “The February Strike,” which is considered the first and largest anti-Nazi protest during World War II.
Columbus benefactor and entrepreneur Tony Moravec, who passed away in November, helped fund the film and lent the use of Zaharakos for filming.
