Language can just come out of my life as i was going to so im ok im good jim. Nicholson street guy approached g. W. Dot com the germans. Took. Luke. And moved. To to move. Hi welcome to a special edition of kino movie magazine these are the offices of Production Company in berlin were here because were here to celebrate one of the companys founders daniel levy levy is an actor hes a producer hes a screenwriter but above all is a director a director of films that have a very special place in german cinema. Do not enjoy. It and soon find that new media. Jumps for joy at the comedy directors biggest success came in two thousand and five go for six german film prizes including best film and best director the jewish comedy about a strange brothers set in modern germany was also a hit at the folks office. I think. The navys most controversial film was a comedy about i dont hitler starring hell. Hitler and hell on his presentational skills from a jewish coach someone from a concentration camp. For with. This. Levy works intensively with his own songbook but this comedy was just too black. Come a time. Machine. Life is too long could be seen as autobiographical the hero is a film director and donnie levys only plays a role im. Going to experience something you. Dont a navy is also an actor a screenwriter. And producer hes one of the full cofounders of one of germanys most innovative Film Production companies for more than thirty years he has been pushing his unique view of the work on the big screen movies that are often personal and always surprising. And were joined now by daniel levy hello welcome to keno thank you. My first question is perhaps a really stupid one. Why. Why comedy why did you choose comedy to tell the type of stories you want to tell because theyre often on the surface quite dark stories ok first of all it seems that i. May i might not have a comic life but i have comics fresh and at least i see comedy in a lot of things that i experience in the way. Life is sometimes so tough and unbearable in the way i think that humor and laugh and the laughs its really you know. But also help in the way off. Or on the standing certain conflicts that we have especially in relationships with family or with friends and i think you can say your work is within the sort of context of the jewish comedic tradition how would you define sort of the jewish jewish jewish comedy i dont even think about it but born into that its something that its me its my cultural. Upbringing jewish humor is always i think its warm hearted in general i think it can be quite subversive in a way its really its not you know its not just. Screwball so its funny its always tragical behind the humor its always tragic behind comedy probably the most famous film. And thats really truly authentic a road German Jewish comedy something we have probably seen since the one nine hundred thirty s. The story is you have a berlin jews not very religious hard up for money and death in order to get his mothers inheritance he has to fulfill her dying wish wish is to make peace with his Orthodox Jewish brother. Which is if you listen to some from the money its good to speak you just have to see if you were here to feel useful to. Go for took it was it was a huge hit here here in germany why do you think that was i mean why do you think germans really went for soccer. This was the right thing not the right time i think it was luck already also i mean. The broadcast. Stations. At first they they were afraid to do it they thought ok could you know people could feel it would be antisemitic because you could laugh about jews and i said no this is a more modern way of dealing with jewishness its like were not laughing at them but with them they sold it by germany was waiting for and first jewish comedy happening in germany now and without the holocaust its like jews believe it or not are continuing living here. I dont mean what it mean for you personally that it was so successful here because i mean germans really embraced the film. It was overwhelming. But. How can i say. I know how to profit. And the movie that i made right after it was mine fuel. Was exactly i could make it once in my life and i made it i knew exactly this is the most subversive movie i can do right now i want to make a movie. Filled with hate that i have against you know all the movies that were made in this country about the nazis that i thought that doesnt work at all we have a clip to set it up its hitler and he got this actor out of the camps a jewish actor out of the camps to train him to do a big speech he just wasnt all that comes in if you know the right but shes a pretty fine ill be going to. Want to be different. So what you can learn from that experience of making your most extreme controversial film i learnt its never too far just go further just go further further i mean i try to be as extreme as i can i mean its really its really hard because youre surrounded by people who are trying to. Convince you that you need to be reasonable and that you need to make sense and you need to you know to to control your risk but thats not the case i think movie is there for adventure and its for there to you know to stretch the limits and to to go as far as you can well. New film be aware of youve got a family which is pretty pretty much every psychosis known to man youve got manic depressive bipolar disorder a. D. H. D. The whole group and right in the middle is a single mom who sort of on assault from all sides. To tell him decent to. See this man and. I mean well you know what the future. I think theres something. For this film for of the where of when to lace why did you want to tell the story i mean why should we care about this this this truly crazy family first of all i think were all crazy right i mean our psyche disorders. Are in the midst of our society we know that its pretty hard to survive in. This world i mean we all were all desperate about their lives in the way some people are more or less happy with what they do and some people do have to do have highs and lows where the main the balance but all the people dont and i thought this is something thats its really worth the comedy come to see me in it just to see. You know. The fact that it sounds like its its a tragedy but they do reality they so much bipolar comedy in it because the tragic moments can be comic in the comic moments kind of. That the the single mother. Is also that there are heroes times because theres so many first of all and they really have to manage a complicated life first they do have a symbiotic life with a child or children plus they do have to make a living and they have family life or they were pretty complex. For something to fit in the sense of. And that was for me was a very important thing that i wanted to dedicate this movie to all the women that are not. You know in the in the situation to fulfill their life. I do think comedy can help when it comes to psychological disorder and the general sort of chaos of life comedy can always help i think i mean i dont want you know i i am not. I dont believe its changes the world but they can help understanding maybe sometimes by. Empathy its like you bring in the light into a dark cell and then you would say look at it it looks pretty weird it looks complicated but you feel light it. They some good aspects and that sometimes i see movies. That are really burdening me and i go through pain and i go through laughter and they go through desperation the way and i come out and theyre like a few days after i feel like out there with this like somebody. Relaxed some kind of not in my soul something is like its like a new its more flowing in my inside my heart in the way well used to keeping your flow going for a long time so we thank you so much for joining us youre welcome that was our special with daniel levy more on mr levy and his films on our website were back next week until then see at the movies. More dream go International Talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week u. S. 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