Characters with rough edges i had strong figures maybe people see that in me. 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 during the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival when the whole city is in a film fever. Of the barrel and allah is celebrating its 70. Anniversary of the sheer star is a really what role does the Film Festival play for you personally and your career. Been in and finished i feel berlin is my city 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 at the city and in turn i identify with the festival in festival. For 10 days the Film Industry takes over berlin girl in l. A. Attracts stars and filmmakers hollywood productions and independent movies and is in the thick of things she had the festival go way back. In 1960 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. People and. Lets. Just. Clear that it was he said he. Just took the results as close as. Christmas. For most of us tacitly to holly and i caught a special it would be nice of silent night became Something Like a small part of a new era from 9. To 999. 00 but he is right it was one of the promising actors honored at the berlin dollar. Just a year later she was chosen as a member of the Film Festival jury a big honor for a young actress. Easy going it is still have been bear for the best actor for mr denzil watching this and. But her most personal and moving festival memory has to be when amy and jaguar was in the competition at the berlin our. List in the. West. Bank and see if you meet. The premier in 1999 try to accompany the real lilly voiced aka amy down the red carpet and the film is based on personal experience which she 1st recounted in a book at the age of 80. Be a shot it was awarded the silver bearer for her performance in amy and jack war continues how did another shooting a couple but. I mean jack why wasnt your typical film about the nazi era what was so news special and so provocative about that film is get 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 end of its own accord and the musics at least as he saves to it and to me only in a certain way amy and jack you are celebrates the love between these 2 women which doesnt suffer her say from the fact its a woman loving a woman but rather that the war comes between men and how i am of color loopt as on. Thats wish and. Certainly in the 1943 the city is in ruins police are shocking heim 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. Mox fabrics film also broke a taboo because it depicted the love of a jew for an anti semite that transcended all boundaries. I think. Its a to hamish thats just. The way. The films touching love story develops in the most adverse of conditions. Not that its a timely interview cast gone but their happiness proved short lived police in a cage jaguar is captured and sent to a concentration camp the lily is left behind all alone here for you and your latest work as a director of the netflix mini Series Unorthodox and once again deals with judaism whats it about. 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 Williamsburg Brooklyn endeavor 1st languages english is only the 2nd and additional bits 5 to this is and this is a very closed community a community has effects she grows up without the internet that she enters into an arranged marriage and i know that phrase herself from this life on and flies to berlin i was living one feet. And then my. And. This is the 1st time out of earshot a has directed a series s. T. 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 as he becomes her husbands property and is expected to be completely subservient to him. A month in spain and the fellow in the couple. Well you didnt see that done 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 mark root just like her for all 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 scene in the world into which we have little insight caught 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. In our own candy land we were the guests of different families of course so guys we also had expert advisors. Fuckwit. Since i guess what happened to this woman is really a horror story of all posse art this is the victory 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 lee 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 hes. Not docs this is the most boring thing you can do as a director is temperature 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 name and their desires 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 of them im a task 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 and we believe. That it wasnt only a working relationship now he is the director danny levy were a couple for years thank you. Lady explored his own jewish roots in the giraffe 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 well. 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. 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. And we shot the film in wastewater tunnels and watch. You have it in our case they were clean. It. And her family really survived in the sewers for 14 months thats when the. 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. My. 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 and concealed but there whereas on the contrary very present. And this. Year you guys are the biggest one yet. Here i thought you should be over yet. Again maybe. Its not from here. It was in the last 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. Are so important for you to escape. There is nothing that forces an actor to be in the present as much as the stage. Woman. You have to be completely there at and thats very powerful and inspiring. Just shall should be a house and hamburg is almost like maria hsia has a 2nd home. Come and welcome to the bowels of the building. She is a long standing member of the ensemble. And this is where i live the hour is here heres the wardrobe are these the costumes for tonight. Yes exactly. Yes you know what 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 at the age of 18 here in hamburg shes playing martha and Edward Albees 962. 00 classic about marital strife. Yes i do guest. Yeah its going to theres a glancing. Blow. Jobs find 5. I found sad that i didnt go all the stuff i still got a guide as i. Write i. Was. Shocked at the facts of our lives george the 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 even if its theres something on fire in flames to do something producing so many white blood cells. Creating an energy that chafes and ensures they dont give up this man and keep. The new. Gene you know. 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 of trying. Its very moving and each performance is a new adventure. Even if it hits. The real house provides a fixed point in a life full of travel and different roles. These days travel 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. Really fun ive always wanted to be shaping things too its just 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 called as i had. The pings are going to follow 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 this leaving your directorial debut i love life it was about intercessor relationship between a young woman and an older man. But its about much more isnt it can you feel me. Yes this is after i mean 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 and powerful women were attracted to the story but also repelled in equal measure. For her 1st foray into directing shada chose to adapt a controversial bestseller and film it in a foreign country love life is the tale of a young woman tangled up in a very unequal relationship. When this whole complex of. This passionate but ill advised affair threatens to destroy our as life from the camera follows her fate up close. The shot or 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 early get into this war with me is shes a woman too and she knows and shes an actress do and 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. 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 into syria. And i would describe it more as a film about exile and less as a film about the writer stefan. Difference high up this is that at 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 i dont like your team car once hitler rose to power and spike fled austria he lived in england in the us before emigrating to brazil in 1948 the writer was also an authority on politics somebody its. The movie he said above its only if he does feel injured from the 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 theres a culture 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 which means you dont make films just for germany but for the world and thats her greatest contribution by talking and. Kind and very important the should be means. In the din of the 2 some in the. After years in exile and spike committed suicide. The film was highly praised for its restrained cinematic language. Right here but 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. And good of you in. History plays a major role in almost all of your films and 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 issues for voters. 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. Even as a church that i had to time state department. 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. Do you know but thats fine and you have to keep in mind 50000 person investment so hes really in. Doesnt. Shut his character appears to be ruthless and without scruples. Couldnt long. Been here but me its i was born. And im putting. My name in the sequel dont slant 86. 00 charges character is at the heart of the action which begins and im going to. Talk as friends and existence to. Keep them in a high position im actually a little bit. Faster than i have to do i think i can invest in and this is how i didnt ask to be indeed the cias mc of the hundreds at the head when he went back to its own devices and got it going and the same as an editor. The Popular Series was seen around the world the next season doj mandated 9 is now in production which try to reprising her role as lenore 0. 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 our shot after you perform on the theatrical stage of the coming film youre in front of and behind the camera your artistic branches is there anything left for you to do for me except as thats writing is the thing im most afraid of that will force. Us to where i say i have the fewest tools of the trade s. To get me through crises facts sarik harborview munns if you look at that. This week thats probably why i have the greatest respect for writers of the spectrum out for me writers who can come up with their own stories are really the crime della crumb going to classify me either so that could be your next challenge that that may be in my next life. Thanks for the talk. My pleasure. To. Keep learning merged reality wait a 2nd we want the whole picture our facts instead of make ideas. Deliver us. 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