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 x. During the Berlin International Film Festival when the whole city is in a film fever. Of the barrel and allah is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Star is a really what role does the Film Festival play for you personally and your career. In the. I feel berlin is my city one been 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 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 straw dogs is in the thick of things she of 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 and time each week. Lets. Clear others of us in just a few. Steps to do this is also of course a chance to clear. Up for most of us positively definitely. A special show in the living 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 Festivals jury a big honor for a young actress. Think shes going to get the Silver Bullion bear for the best actor the miss that Denzel Washington has and. Better most personal and moving festival memory has to be when amy and jaguar was in the competition at the berlin our. The list in the. Last. Bank is if you know anything. At the premiere in 1909 try to accompany the real lilly voiced aka amy down the red carpet but that was based on experience which she 1st recounted in a book at the age of 80 capias shot it was awarded the silver bearer for her performance in a me and war continues how do nothing she said. That. 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 from the most sex. And he said 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 i know. It could come in that situation. Her live in 1943 the city is in ruins police are shocking heim is a jew living under an assumed name she doesnt wear 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. She teaches her. The films touching love story develops in the most adverse of conditions. That its time to even consider you cast the gun but their happiness proved short lived police in a cage jaguar is captured and sent to a concentration camp 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. Sr you say its 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 language is english is only the 2nd and national its 5 to 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 on and flies to berlin i was living one feet. And then my. Im 36. This is the 1st time maybe a shot a 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 estie becomes her husbands property and is expected to be completely subservient to him. Among those in spirit and the fellow in the cup. We even see 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 mother all s. T. Begins a challenging new life in berlin. My grandparents lost their whole families in the camps i. Was there. It was interesting how did you research this its a unique world into which we have little insight we caught yeah naturally we went to new york a few tyrants met 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 an hour and we were the guests of different families of course we also had expert advisors. Fuckwit. Since i guess what happened to this woman is really a horror story of all possible that this is the victim that is the biggest and most important goal i set for myself as the director of this project so i need to not let it become a story about which you could easily say its a horror story. And the ultimate leigh its about an absolutely basic human need. Mention it yes but 2 of them in 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 completely predictable characters so. The meaning is. Thus and finish i feel that its my task to explore and depicts people with their complexities. In their pleasantries and unpleasant sides one on the name and their desires and their limits. Because then so. 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 i mean thats where i 1st encountered theater to. Ive been back to israel many times since and ive worked a lot with one jewish person in particular danny levy in the evening. But it wasnt only a working relationship now his father and the director danny levy were a couple for years i think 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 anti semites then. Imo i really hope that your mother gets what. She died and i would go. The role of a jew is also a type of a 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 he had to spend 14 months in the sewers with 2 small children and her husband. It was claustrophobic and terrible the cast for bush hardly imaginable so. On we shot the film in wastewater tunnels and. It could be a habit in our case they were clean and i said you want to get the heat. And her family really survived in the sewers for 14 months. And you actually go whole on 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. Pervious 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 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 or does. This. For you guys if it is going to yeah. Yeah i saw if you feel real. Good. Its not funny you cant. Hear it in the last few years theyve got. A script 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 is theater so important for you to escape. There is nothing that forces an actor to be in the present as much as the stage. You have to be completely there at the right and thats very powerful and inspiring. But dont just be a house and hamburg is almost like maria hsia has a 2nd home. Coming welcome to the bowels of the building. She is a longstanding member of the ensemble. And this is where i live the out years ago heres the wardrobe are these the costumes for tonight. Yes exactly. Yes you have lived here since the beginning since i started from. His 1st big love was the. She studied drama at the renowned mox reinhard seminar in vienna at the age of 18 thats here in hamburg shes playing martha and Edward Albees 962. 00 classic about marital strife. And. Yeah back to you guessed it. Yet still going to theres the. Oh. My. Job to find cyanide. I found sad that i am close out the day god as i am. I. Guess. Its. Time for the flash of idea to arch. 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. The disconnect its given 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 helpful 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 show should be a 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. For most actors dont really find their way behind the camera why did you choose to take this path theres something very. Funny 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 treatment 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. The pings are going to fall how do you integrate your acting experiences into your director. And there she did 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 us leaving your directorial debut i love life it was about an assessor relationship between a young woman and an older man. But its about much more isnt it i can feel. Yeah this is after i things i think yes on the one hand its an obsessive love affair but on the other you 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 tough and powerful as well women were attracted to the story but also repelled in equal measure and thats what weve really 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. Minus how complex the house. This passionate but ill advised affair threatens to destroy our as life 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 well against us war with me is shes a woman too and she knows shes an ex shes 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. For 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 interests and guard units and i would describe it more as a film about exile and less as a film about the writer stefan. High up this year 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. Once hitler rose to power at 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 seen its. Movie he always had a ball of its own as he does feel injured from movies and. Its very kind of. The film delves into the psychology of a man torn apart by inner conflicts a universal theme theres a culture its not just what youre going to rio always does projects that move between worlds but really work internationally and are conceived that way. And thats what cinematic language is all about today which you dont make films just for germany but for the world and thats her greatest contribution i try and. Kind of put it to should be. But all in for so long on that then as it was im in the will because after years in exile spike committed suicide. The film was highly praised for its restrained cinematic language. As i received it whether shes in front of or behind the camera shot and never takes the easy way out or 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 in. History plays a major role in almost all of your films t. V. Series deutschland 83. 00 covers part of the final decade of communist east germany play an east german reconnaissance agent and what kind of woman is she provided to. Those who want to 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. Seeing another challenge them to to understand. Money. For her political convictions she goes as far as to sell her own nephew sold to the east German Secret Service hes to serve as an agent in the west but 1st they have to break his will. Thats fine and you have to keep in mind 50000 person investment so hes going. Thats a. Shot his character appears to be ruthless and without scruples. Could be more. Of an issue for me its i was born. Since 1. 1000 pounds. And even the sequel deutschland 86. 00 charges character is at the heart of the action which begins in angola. Because ill talk to friends and exes to tell. You. That has to then have to do i think i can invest and time is how much i get asked to be indeed the cias mc of the hundreds that have hit upon him to the yeah im divide says im going to get understand this and i did. The Popular Series was seen around the world the next season deutschland 89 is now in production with try to reprising her role as lenore out. As it has released as president 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 are you sure you perform on the theatrical stage of the common 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. Where id say i have the fewest tools of the trade s to get me through crises so i have a very nice look at that. Thats behind is probably why i have the greatest respect for writers. Out for me writers who can come up with their own stories are really the crammed going to classify me either so that could be your next challenge and that the maybe in my next life. Thanks for the talk but my pleasure. What do they dream of at night. 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