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 International Film Festival when the whole city is in the film fever. Of the barrel and allah is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year to start a relay what role does the Film Festival play for you personally and your career. Feel berlin is my city and 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 festival. For 10 days the Film Industry takes over berlin girl and attracts stars and filmmakers. Hollywood productions and independent movies and shrouded is in the thick of things she in the festival go way back. In 1906 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 you need to build an economy. That was. Not as it was when you said you. Just have to do this is all just lots of places just because. I felt. That kind of special show in my living nice of silent night became Something Like a small part of a new era for 90. 999. 00 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 Festivals jury a big honor for a young actress i. Think shes. Going it is still the villain bearer for the best actor the miss that Denzel Washington presented. But her most personal and moving festival memory has to be when amy and jaguar was in the competition at the berlin our. Last. Thing you see from them. 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 of which she 1st recounted in a book at the age of 80 got. Shot it was awarded the silver bearer for her performance in amy and. Consumers had another she should. Know that it. Wasnt your typical film about the nazi era what was so new 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 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 from the most sex. And he says to it to me 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. They could come to in that situation. Certainly and in 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. Mox fabrics film also broke a taboo because it depicted the love of a jew for an anti semite that transcended all boundaries. And. Its just its just. She. Live. The films touching love story develops in the most adverse of conditions and the now its time to. Consider you can ask the question but their happiness proves short lived bullies aka jack wire is captured and sent to a concentration camp the 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 its the. System you see just 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. In dare 1st languages english is only the 2nd and. 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 i know that phrase herself from this life on and flies to berlin i was in one fleet now. And then i might. And. This is the 1st time out here 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. I thought 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. Among within speed in the film in the cup. When he then in the the gun in. The series is based on deborah feldmans International Bestseller an 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 s. T. Begins a challenging new life in berlin. My grandparents lost their whole families in the camps i. Was there. I. It was interesting how did you research this unique world into which we have little insight 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. And i can glass and we were the guests of different families but of course 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 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. I mean and ultimately its about an absolutely basic human need. Just mentioned the. Namely the desire to belong yet retain your individuality. Individuality. And in my view thats also the field of tension and 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. Going to be me is. The us and finn 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 their desires and their limits. Because when song. Where does your interest in jewish culture and characters and their stories stem from. The midfoot something i went to israel for the 1st time when i was 14. Where i 1st encountered peter to. Ive been back to israel many times since and ive worked a lot with one jewish person in particular danny levy and the movement. But it wasnt only a working relationship. The director danny levy were a couple for years thank you. 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 any semites then. Imo i really hope that your mother gets well. She died and i will go. Through the role of a jew is also a type of a label they are all very different individual characters. In darkness darkness you play a jewish woman is nazi occupied poland you have to hide underground in darkness literally what was that experience like. And pole you know he got in my character paulina he had just spent 14 months in the sewers with 2 small children and her husband. It was claustrophobic and terrible the cast for bush hardly imaginable. And we shot the film in wastewater tunnels and watch. You have it in our case they were clean and i guess thats you want to get the heat. And her family really survived in the sewers for 14 months he said. Oh yes go hollands 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. Obvious 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 i mean. Mostly they probably have a kind of great vitality which has either been buried and concealed or is on the contrary very present. And this. Is what you guys remember this morning yeah. You know i still if youre. Thinking maybe. Its not funny you cant. Hear you know she hears even dance. Its. Because there are very few actors in germany a car 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. One. You have to be completely there at the right and thats very powerful and inspiring. But dont just shout should be a house of hamburg is it 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 hard years ago heres 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 the she studied drama at the renowned mox seminar in vienna the age of 18 thats here in hamburg shes playing martha and Edward Albees 962. 00 classic about marital strife. And. Yes i guessed it. Yet still going to theres the. Oh. My. Jobs fine 5. I found sad that i didnt do a lot of stuff i still got day god was i. Right i. Was. There just in the flash of our natural arch 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 can even if its theres something on fire in flames of 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. Its. Just. Been the hudson river 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. A challenge be a house provides a fixed point in a life full of travel and different roles. These days its 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 path. These movies are in. The 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 shipments hype 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 are going to have a problem how do you integrate your acting experiences into your director. Well there she did so on the unlike 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 your directorial 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 after i mean on the one hand its an obsessive love affair but on the other say its also about a family that 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 in one x. One forming 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 schroder 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. Mine is complex enough of. This passionate but ill advised affair threatens to destroy our as life from the camera follows her fate up close. Though 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 hours. She was very elegant and nice or with me is shes a woman too and she knows that shes an actress doing she knows how much. Fear is involved. In love life is based on. Book of the same name. Nokia shorters 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 you know its and i would describe it more as a film about exile and less as a film about the writer stefan. Difference high up this wasnt at all possible to relocate your homeland. But is home actually how do you deal with language and this kind of cultural uprooting thats the real thing. Is this i dont like your team. 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 its profits i own a movie he goes at it both its own as he does feel and its only reasons. For the kind of its only about the film delves into the psychology of a man torn apart by inner conflicts a universal theme theres a good chance of this what are you going to rio always does projects that move between worlds but really work internationally and are conceived that way. So 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. And. Kind of a fun put it to should the. But only for so long that they know the truth. After years in exile spike committed suicide. The film was highly praised for its restraint cinematic language. Right whether shes in front of or behind the camera shot and 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. Fast 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 you play an east german reconnaissance agent what kind of woman if she. Is those who want to follow and then you know what i liked about lenore 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. Pacific and as attention to understand. For her political convictions she goes as far as to sell her own nephews 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 thats fine and you have to keep in mind 50000 person invested sincerely then. Doesnt. Shut his character appears to be ruthless and without scruples. Could not. Have an issue that needs a house or. Anyone to partake. In even the sequel deutschland 86. 00 trotters character is at the heart of the action which begins in angola. His friends and an existence. That has to then have to come to have to get back and invest in and i mean ask to be indeed the cias mc of the hundreds that have hit when he went back to its own devices that i understand is an added. 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 the obvious that you perform on the theatrical stage of the current film youre in front of and behind the camera your artistic branches is there anything left for you to do for me except this thats writing is the thing im most afraid of. Here id say i have the fewest tools of the trade s. To get me through crises facts so i have a view hes 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 crammed going to classify me as it was so that could be your next challenge and that maybe in my next life. Thanks for the talk oh my pleasure. When will this happen again. Until then the d. J. Star Paul Van Dyke used to lazing new trails. Come to some new session mindstream from birmingham. What made him a visit and asked what projects he can still see through. The moment. 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