Edges i had strong figures maybe people see that in me but. 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 expo during the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival when the whole city is in a film fever. Of the barrel and allah is celebrating its. 70th anniversary of the sheer star is a really big one what role does the Film Festival play for you personally in your career. Then you know finish i feel berlin is my city one but even though i listened 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 make them festival. For 10 days the Film Industry takes over berlin the berlin l. A. Attracts stars and filmmakers hollywood productions and independent movies and is in the thick of things she and 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 anything. He said last. Night is a list of. Stuff to do this is also of course a pretty outspoken critic. Of the most of us positively dot com a special show in the living nice of silent night became Something Like a small part of a new era for 90. 999. 00 but you shot it was one of the promising actors honored at the barrel of knowledge. Just a year later she was chosen as a member of the Film Festivals jury a big honor for a young our 1st. Season they going here is still the villain bearer for the best actor for mr denzil watching this and i am. But her most personal and moving festival memory has to be when amy and jaguar was in the competition at the berlin our. Bankers if you meet. At the premiere in 1999 try to accompany the real lilly voiced aka amy down the red carpet the film is based on experience which she 1st recounted in a book at the age of 80 bubby short it was awarded the silver bearer for her performance and amy a job for consumers had enough issues. Oh. It. Wasnt your typical film about the nazi era what was so news special and so provocative about that film as faggot kind of well not a week goes by that im not asked repeatedly about amy and jack otter. 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 that they screen and told of homosexual love that didnt end of its own accord to have the most sex. And he says to it and in males in a certain way amy and jack you are celebrates the love between these 2 women which doesnt suffer for safe from the fact its a woman loving a woman rather that the war comes between them and of how i have holly jazz on it could come in that swishing. Dirty linen 1943 the city is in ruins police are struck and haim is a jew living under an assumed name she doesnt wear a yellow star and as 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. Mocks favorite books film also broke a taboo because it depicted the love of a jew for an anti semite that. Transcended all boundaries. Of. Food stamps thats just. The way. The films touching love story develops in the most adverse of conditions. Now its time to. Consider new cast upon but their happiness proved short lived billys a k jaguar is captured and sent to a concentration camp lily is left behind all alone in your latest work as a director of the netflix mini series an orthodox once again deals with judaism whats it about. Its the. Sister 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 brooklyn endeavor 1st languages english is only the 2nd and a shrewd fighter 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 in one fleet. Might. And. 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. Try to paints a precise picture of this insular world after the euphoria of the wedding as he becomes her husbands property and is expected to be completely subservient to him. Among those in spirit and the fellow in the couple. Where he didnt even see the sun in. The series is based on deborah feldmans International Bestseller on orthodox the scandalous rejection of my house citic roots it tells how she grew up and left he has said except margaret just like her for all as he 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. Yeah naturally we went to new york a few times that havana williams we were in williamsburg and got to know these communities as much as it was possible to with our own eyes. With ivan and the lad and we were the guests of different families but of course guys we also had expert advisors. Fuckwit. And so i guess what happened to this woman is really a horror story of all posse art this is the victim that is the biggest and most important goal i set for myself as the director of this project so i did not let it become a story about which you could easily say its a horror story. And the ultimately its about an absolutely basic human need to go on sexless mentioned the. 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. Or not talks is this the most boring thing you can do as a director is to patrol a completely predictable characters and. Thats and finish i feel that its my task to explore and depicts people with their complexities. In their pleasantries and unpleasant sides when im in the movie and theyre just hires and their limits. Because then so. Where does your interest in jewish culture and characters and their stories stem from. From it fits in this i went to israel for the 1st time when i was 14 at the moment thats where i 1st encountered theater to that im complementary 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 ive been back to israel many times since and ive worked a lot with one jewish person in particular. That we live in. That it wasnt only a working relationship not be a shot or a director danny levy were a couple for years thank you the lady explored 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 if your mother gets well. She died in. The role of the 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. He got in 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 and wastewater tunnels and. You have it in our case they were cleaned out and i said 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. Serbia shot up plays a character who refuses to give up hope in the darkest of times. Like. Characters are always strong combative and stubborn what makes you want to play certain roles. Escaped mostly and they probably have a kind of great vitality which has either been buried concealed or is on the contrary very present. And. Before you guys are misunderstanding yeah. You know i still. Feel young. To night it isnt to be thinking maybe. Its not funny yet. I didnt notice few years theyve gotten so. Its good 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. Or so important for you to escape. In there is nothing that forces an actor to be in the present as much as the stage. You have to be completely there at and thats very powerful and inspiring. Shall should be a house in hamburg is almost like maria hsia has a 2nd home. 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. Yes ive lived here since the beginning since i started on. His 1st big love was the she studied drama at the renowned mox seminar in vienna the age of 18 here in hamburg shes playing martha in Edward Albees 962 classic about marital strife. And. Yes i guess this yes its going to theres a glancing. Blow. Jobs find god. I found sad that i didnt go on. The god date god has. I. Was. There just in the flesh of our lives or arch games he 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. Let us finish its can even if its theres something on fire in flames 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 room. But its. Been hard on maria 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 of trying. Its very moving and each performance is a new adventure. The 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. Most actors dont really find their way behind the camera why did you choose to take this. Very. Fun ive always wanted to be shaping things to wish that 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 that called as id thought. The pings are going to follow how do you integrate your acting experiences into your director. So im going on like others starting out with directing 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 leave us leaving your directorial debut i love life it was about an obsessive relationship between a young woman and an older man. But its about much more isnt it i can feel me. Yet this is after i means i think yes on the one hand that 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 and when its extremely one feminist this was probably what made this book so explosive and powerful women were attracted to the story but also repelled in equal measure and thats what would be up distortion. For her 1st foray into directing shada 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 complex not. This passionate but ill advised affair threatens to destroy our as life from the camera follows her fate up close. Though she brought her 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. She was very elegant thanks war with me is shes a woman too and she knows shes an actress doing she knows how much. Fear is involved. In love life is based on. Book of this. Name names. Not be a shot as adaptation shows a young woman torn between lust breaking taboos and willing submission. 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. Like. You know its and i would describe it more as a film about exile and less as a film about the writer stefan. Stephens high up this is that all possible to relocate your homeland. But is home actually how do you deal with language in this kind of cultural uprooting thats the real thing. Is this team. Once hitler rose to power at spike fled austria he lived in england in the us before emigrating to brazil in 1940 the writer was also an authority on politics star somebody its. Movie he goes above its own and he does feel injured from the reasons. For the kind of. The film delves into the psychology of a man torn apart by inner conflicts a universal theme this is a good show its not just what mario always does projects that move between worlds but reading work internationally and are conceived that way. So thats what cinematic language is all about today which you dont make films just for germany but for the world and thats our greatest contribution by touch and. Kind of a should be means. You know the. After years in exile spike committed suicide. The film was highly praised for its restrained cinematic language. Whether shes in front of or behind the camera shot or never takes the easy way out 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 and evil. History plays a major role in almost all of your films in the t. V. Series deutschland 83. 00 covers part of the final decade of communist east germany thats what 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 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. Rather she actually acts out of political convictions i was in the south. Going to challenge them 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 i try not to have. This came to mind because one person invested his room in. Shot his character appears to be ruthless and without scruples. Could long. When he. Meets i was born. So long. And putting. So many in the sequel deutschland 86. 00 was trotters character is at the heart of the action which begins in angola. His ill talk as friends and existence. Faster than i have to do i think i can invest and time is how much i didnt ask to be indeed the cias mc of the hundreds of the hate for him to. Divide to understand as an editor. The Popular Series was seen around the world the next season deutschland 89 is now in production which try to reprising her role as lenore a. As it has released us prison 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 after you perform on the theatrical stage of the current film youre in front of and behind the camera your artistic ranges is there anything left for you to do for me except this thats writing is the thing im most afraid of. Where i say i have the fewest tools of the trade us to get me through crises and facts so i have a vague. Look at that. This was probably why i have the greatest respect for writers of the spectrum outof for me house writers who can come up with their own stories are really the crime to like going to classify me up either so that could be your next challenge that the maybe in my next life. Thanks for the top oh my pleasure. To. 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