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Renee Ghert-Zand is a reporter and feature writer for The Times of Israel. Stephen Mark Erle (later David Rosenberg) at age six months in 1962. His birth mother Margaret Erle was coerced into signing away her parental rights. This photo was taken during the first of just two meetings Margaret and the baby's father birth father George Katz were allowed with him while in foster care prior to his adoption. (Courtesy of Margaret Erle Katz) George Katz and Margaret Erle, when Margaret was six months pregnant and about to be sent to the Lakeview Home for Unwed Jewish Mothers on Staten Island, 1961....

How was this able to be able -- able to have been covered up or kept secret for so long? >> it's a bit of a mystery, to be honest. the people involved in the separation of the brothers were very powerful individuals. they had connections, particularly on the east coast, and i think they managed to kind of suppress anyone looking into this. we certainly found evidence while we were making the film that a couple of attempts by major u.s. networks in the '80s and '90s were definitely shut down after pressure from some of the individuals involved in the brothers' separation. >> we know that there ...

>> joining us now is the director of "three identical strangers" tim wardle. i've seen the film. it is fantastic. thank you for being with us. first, tell us how you heard about these triplets and you hope to accomplish with this film? >> i first heard about the story of the triplets the production company i was working with brought in the idea and instantly i could see a great human interest story but had layers where it enabled you to explore deeper, kind of philosophical questions about nature versus nurture and free will and destiny and also in its heart it has a real injust that h -- inju...