Shes a real powerhouse prize winning film director and well known actress whos equally at home in film and television yet still regularly tears up the stage. We meet her at the offices of Production Company x. During the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival when the whole city is in film fever. Of the barrel and allah is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Is a really blunt role does the Film Festival play for you personally in your career. Then you. And from that i feel berlin is my city one but even though i wasnt born here but ive been living here since before the fall of the wall and i think people also identify me with the city and in turn i identify with the festival in festival. For 10 days the Film Industry takes over berlin girl and attracts stars and filmmakers hollywood productions and independent movies and shot it is in the thick of things she in the festival go way back. In 1906 when she appeared in donnie laybys film silent night which was in the competition its 3 main characters are involved in a messy love triangle and decided to try to unpick the situation on Christmas Eve a different take on the festive season. If many people dont and i mean. Lets. Just. Clear that as it was when you said you. Just have to do this is also because of. The 1st hostiles occasionally dot com as fashion show and i live a nice of silent night became Something Like a small part of anywhere from 9. To 999. 00 but he shot it was one of the promising actors altered at the berlin dollar. Just a year later she was chosen as a member of the Film Festivals jury a big honor for a young actress. To be going to the Silver Bullion bearer for the best actor to miss that Denzel Washington is and. Butter most personal and moving festival memory has to be when amy and jaguar was in the competition at the berlin our. Thank you so if you meet. At the premiere in 1999 try to accompany the real lilly voiced aka amy down the red carpet and the film is based on bushs experience which she 1st recounted in a book at the age of 80. Be shot or was awarded the silver bearer for her performance in amy a job for. Nothing she should. Know that. I mean jack why wasnt your typical film about the nazi era what was so news special and so provocative about that film is it kind of well not a week goes by that im not asked repeatedly about amy and jack are. And i think its because it was the 1st time at least in the german speaking world that a lesbian love story made it onto the big screen and told of homosexual love that didnt and of its own accord and was sex. And he said it and in a certain way amy and jack you are celebrates the love between these 2 women which doesnt suffer per se from the fact its a woman loving a woman but rather that the war comes between them and how i know. It could come in thats russian. For live in 1943 the city is in ruins police are shocking heim is a jew living under an assumed name she doesnt wear yellow star and is a member of the underground though she lives with the constant threat of being caught she retains her dignity and lust for life while the world collapses around her and the last jews in berlin are being rounded up and sent to the death camps. Mosques fabrics film also broke a taboo because it depicted the love of a jew for an anti semite that transcended all boundaries. It can be such. A shock. When. The films touching love story develops in the most adverse of conditions not that its a timely interview cast because but their happiness proved short lived police say ok jack barr is captured and sent to a concentration camp lily is left behind all alone either you or your latest work as a director of the netflix mini Series Unorthodox once again deals with judaism whats it about the board its the. System you say to the story of a very young woman who grows up in an extremely religious environment namely in the Satmar Community in williamsburg in brooklyn he was in Williamsburg Brooklyn endeavor 1st languages english is only the 2nd and additional deeds to this is and this is a very closed Community Communities effect she grows up without the internet that she enters into an arranged marriage and that frees herself from this life one and flies to berlin i was living one fleet. If. I might. Im 36. This is the 1st time of year shada has directed a series estie only gets to meet her future husband once before they marry as part of an Ultra Orthodox Jewish community in new york her life is dominated by religious rules. A shot of paints a precise picture of this insular world after the euphoria of the wedding estie becomes her husbands property and is expected to be completely subservient to him. Among the spirit and the flow in the cup and then in the thing thats done in. The series is based on deborah feldmans International Bestseller on orthodox the scandalous rejection of my house civic roots it tells how she grew up and left he has said except margaret just like her s. T. Begins a challenging new life in berlin. My grandparents lost their whole families in the camps. Shes confronted with the often harsh realities of being a jew in modern day germany. But slowly as tea leaves her own home and its values behind and creates a new identity for herself in germany of all places. You know its interesting how did you research this its a unique world into which we have little insight we caught yeah naturally we went to new york a few times but havana williams we were in williamsburg and got to know these communities as much as it was possible to with our own eyes. Mithai in our own candy land we were the guests of different families of course so guys we also had expert advisors. Fuckwit. Since are you sure what happened to this woman is really a horror story or for all posse art this is Division Takes to all that is the biggest and most important goal i set for myself as the director of this project so i do not let it become a story about which you could easily say its a horror story. And the ultimate leigh its about an absolutely basic human need to go on sex with men. In the middle namely the desire to belong yet retain your individuality. Individuality. And in my view thats also the field of tension in which the story in an orthodox takes place hes. Not docs this is the most boring thing you can do as a director is to patrol a completely predictable characters so its. His. Thats unfinished i feel that its my task to explore and depicts people with their complexities. In their pleasantries and unpleasant sides when im going to a movie and their desires and their limits. Because then so. Where does your interest in jewish culture and characters and their stories stem from. If the myth fits in that i went to israel for the 1st time when i was 14 at the moment thats where i 1st encountered theater to the uncomplimentary and then of course theres the way i look. And when im in israel everyone speaks to me in hebrew and when i say that i dont speak hebrew they laugh at me and continue to speak hebrew with me here ive been back to israel many times since and ive worked a lot with one jewish person in particular danny levy that he lived in. But it wasnt only a working relationship now he is stronger than the director danny levy were a couple for years thank you. Let me explore his own jewish roots in the giraffe shot of plays a German Jewish woman who moves back from new york to germany after her grandfathers factory is set on fire by anti semites then. Imo i really hope that your mother gets what. She died in. The role of a jew is also a type of label they are all very different individual characters. In darkness you play a jewish woman is nazi occupied poland you have to hide underground in darkness literally what was that experience like. And. My character. Had to spend 14 months in the sewers with 2 small children and her husband. It was claustrophobic and terrible for bush hardly imaginable. We shot the film in wastewater tunnels and. You have it in our case they were clean. It. And her family really survived in the sewers for 14 months he said. Oscar nominated film was based on a true story about a group of jews who escaped the deportations and massacres during the liquidation of the luvox ghetto by hiding in the sewers. Pervious shot up plays a character who refuses to give up hope in the darkest of times. Like. Your characters are always strong combative and stubborn what makes you want to play certain roles i mean. Mostly they probably have a kind of great vitality which has either been buried concealed that there is on the contrary very present or does. This. Because the 1st one yes. Youre right still if youre still reacting. To. Maybe. Its not funny you cant. Hear you know was gods. Because there are very few actors in germany like are successful both in front of the camera and behind it and on top of that they are often on the stage why is theatre so important for you to escape. There is nothing that forces an actor to be in the present as much as the stage. One. Have to be completely there at that and thats very powerful and inspiring. But dont just be a house and hamburg is almost like maria hsia has a 2nd home. Come welcome to the bowels of the building. She is a longstanding member of the ensemble. And this is where i live the heart is yours the wardrobe are these the costumes for tonight. Yes exactly. You know what ive lived here since the beginning since i started on. His 1st big love was theater she studied drama at the renowned mox seminar in vienna at the age of 18 here in hamburg shes playing martha in Edward Albees 962 classic about marital strife. And. Yes i guessed it. Yet its going to theres that lots of. Oh. My. Jobs fine 5. I felt sad that i didnt go south i still got day god. I. Guess. Its. Just that the flash of our lives are ours. Really drunkenly lay into each other is there anything left for us. Yes love. An appetite for life restlessness this is a quest for happiness. The disconnect its even if its a theres something on fire sin flame to something producing so many white blood cells. Creating an energy that chafes me and ensures they dont give up this man and keep. The. Key. To keep. His job. In the rear and i play with a great deal of energy. And this contributes to the lively nature of a performance even if something catches on the way as the energy never goes off track. Its very moving and each performance is a new adventure. A challenge be a house provides a fixed point in a life full of travel and different roles. These days trotter is also spending a lot of time directing such as the mini Series Adaptation of an orthodox. For most actors dont really find their way behind the camera why did you choose to take this path. The fun ive always wanted to be shaping things to. I started writing screenplays before i started acting in films but. Then i learned how to edit and how to write a treatment. How to get funds. And without that i probably would never have dared to make a feature length film called as i had to hold. The pings or how do you integrate your acting experiences into your director. Yeah. So im going on like others starting out with direct and ive got the great advantage of having been on many sets as an actress i cherish and i have observed many other directors men and women at work so couldnt even leave us leaving iraq tauriel debut i love life it was about a relationship between a young woman and an older man. But its about much more isnt it i can feel me. Yes this is of the items i think on the one hand its an obsessive love affair but on the other say its also about a family the book i based it on is a young womans breathless monologue a woman who goes into an unknown space and does things that could be considered extremely unfeminist in nature when its extremely i mean this this was probably what made this book so explosive tough and powerful women were attracted to the story but also repelled in equal measure. For her 1st foray into directing schroder chose to adapt a controversial bestseller the film it in a foreign country love life is the tale of a young woman tangled up in a very unequal relationship. Manifold compassionate. This passionate but ill advised affair threatens to destroy our as life from the camera follows her fate up close. The shot a shot her successful debut film in israel the political situation there only plays a peripheral role her focus is on love and dependency strada demonstrated great empathy for the after hours. She does very well against this war with me is shes a woman too and she knows and shes an actress doing she knows how much. Fear is involved. Love life is based on. Book of the same name. Not be a shot as adaptation shows a young woman torn between lust breaking taboos and willing submission. Yes i feel your most successful film is probably your 2nd one as a director stefan spike farewell to europe what was it about stefan spikes faith that interested you. For difference like interests in that. And i would describe it more as a film about exile and less as a film about the writer stefan. High up this wasnt at all possible to relocate your homeland. But is home actually how do you deal with language in this kind of cultural uprooting thats a real family. Is this team was a little girl once hitler rose to power and spike fled austria he lived in england in the us before emigrating to brazil in 1945 the writer was also an authority on politics start somebody think its cool if its only a movie he said above its only see those feelings its only reasons. For the kind of its only what the film delves into the psychology of a man torn apart by inner conflicts a universal theme is against its not just what you mario always does projects that move between worlds but really work internationally and are conceived that way up to production thats what cinematic language is all about today its all you need and you dont make films just for germany but for the world and thats her greatest contribution by product and. Kind and very important the should be means your own shop. On that in a city to some in the world because after years in exile spike committed suicide. The film was highly praised for its restrained cinematic language. As i recall whether shes in front of or behind the camera shot or never takes the easy way out to ignore her work often tackles big historical themes like the events in the 1980 s. Which led to the fall of the berlin wall right and wrong good read. Fast history plays a major role in almost all of your films you know t. V. Series deutschland 83 covers part of the final decade of communist east germany you play an east german reconnaissance agent and what kind of woman if she. Clear all those who follow and then you know what i liked about it from the beginning was that shes a bit of a shadowy character. She plays with peoples lives exercises her power and a seemingly cold. But in the end in my view shes not simply cold. In fact the. Rather she actually acts out of political convictions i was in the south. Ossetian as entrenched and dont have to understand. For her political convictions she goes as far as to sell her own nephew soul to the east German Secret Service hes to serve as an agent in the west but 1st they have to break his will. But im going to have to keep in mind 50000 person and best sense to me then. Doesnt. He. Shot his character appears to be ruthless and without scruples. Could not. Have been here but me its i was born. So. Then learn to partake. In the sequel deutschland 86. 00 charges character is at the heart of the action which begins on angola. Because of talk his friends an existence to. Keep him in a high position. That has to then have to do i think i can invest in and thomas have asked to be indeed the cias mc of the 100 so that when he did you divide to understand as an editor. The Popular Series was seen around the world the next season deutschland 89. 00 is now in production which try to reprising her role as lenore out. As has released as bizarre not as an actor the nicest thing about getting to play a character like this for 3 seasons is that you grow close to the people who write the character. And you contribute your own ideas. I think here we complemented one another quite nicely of should advise against your father into your shot you perform on the theatrical stage of the common film youre in front of and behind the camera your artistic range is is there anything left for you to do for me except this thats writing is the thing im most afraid of. Where id say i have the fewest tools of the trade s to get me through crises facts so i have a view munns if you look at it. This was probably why i have the greatest respect for writers of the spectrum outof for me writers who can come up with their own stories are really the crime to classify me i would say that could be your next challenge and that the maybe in my next life. Thanks for the talk. My pleasure. The boeing. Thank you for coming. To south africa in singapore a better environment thanks to man are taking a look close to waste recycling. Area garbage was put into their community the old beast. 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