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 office is a Production Company x. During the Berlin International Film Festival when the whole city is in a film fever. Shot of the barrel and allah is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year star is a really good one what role does the Film Festival play for you personally and your career. Benyon and for. 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 with the city and in turn i identify with the festival with the festival. For 10 days the Film Industry takes over berlin girl and attracts stars and filmmakers hollywood productions and independent movies and shot at is in the thick of things she in the festival go way back. In 1906 when she appeared in donnie levys 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 wouldnt and i mean. Lets. Just. Let it was hes a. Start a business off his classes. Just. For most of us positively definitely. A special show and he would be nice if 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. The big easy to say going here is still the villain barefoot the best actor to miss that Denzel Washington is and. But her most personal and moving festival memory has to be when amy and jaguar was in the competition at the berlin our. The estimate. Is if you meet. The premier in 1909 try to accompany the real aka me down the red carpet the film is based on bushs experience in which he 1st recounted in a book at the age of 80 obvious shot it was awarded the silver bearer for her performance in a man just war continues adding another shooting. But it. Wasnt your typical film about the nazi era what was so news special and so provocative about that film is highgate 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 that they screen and told of homosexual love that didnt and of its own accord is the most sex. And he saves to it and in my own skin 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 men and how. Thats wish. For lynn in 1943 the city is in ruins the 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 still cant. See the child. With. The films touching love story develops in the most adverse of conditions he did not know that its time to. Consider new cast because 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 its the. System you say to 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 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 i know that phrase herself from this life on and flies to berlin i was in one fleet. And they might. And. This is the 1st time out of earshot 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 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. When he then see. 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 father 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 times to much havana williams we were in williamsburg and got to know these communities as much as it was possible to with our own eyes. Agnon our own candy land we were the guests of different families of course so gassed 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. And the ultimate leigh its about an absolutely basic human need to go on sex he mentioned the 2 of them namely the desire to belong yet retain your individuality. Individually. 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 to patrol completely predictable characters so its. Been me is. Thus and finn i feel that its my task to explore and depicts people with their complexities. In their pleasantries and unpleasant sides. And their desires and their limits. Because then so. Where does your interest in jewish culture and characters and their stories stem from. From the folks in this estimate i went to israel for the 1st time when i was 14. Where i 1st encountered theater 2. 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. In 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 anti semites then. Imo i really hope that your mother gets what. She died and that was. The role of the 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. You know he got in my character 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. It. And her family really survived in the sewers for 14 months he said sure 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. Obvious shot up plays a character who refuses to give up hope in the darkest of times. Like. Your 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 concealed whereas on the contrary very present. And this. Is what you guys are up for this morning yes. If you like still if youre. Not going. To come here. Then you know those 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. Have to be completely there at and thats very powerful and inspiring. Just shall should be a house of hamburg is almost like maria hsia has a 2nd home to. Come and welcome to the bowels of the building. She is a long standing member of the ensemble. And this is where i live its yours the wardrobe or 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 at the age of 18 here in hamburg shes playing martha in Edward Albees 962 classic about marital strife. And. Yet as i guessed it. Yet still under the clouds. Oh. My. Job to find cyanide. I found sad that i didnt go to war thanks steve got take out has i i i. Was. Just in the flesh of my live charge. 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 feel like its can even if its theres something on fire sin flame 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. You know. The g. O. P. Job. Being hopeful in my 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. A challenge fieldhouse 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. And 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 called as ive. Seen the end he brings it in the fall how do you integrate your acting experiences into your director. And there she had to undergo 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 an obsessive relationship between a young woman and an older man. But its about much more isnt it i can feel. Yes this is after i means i think yes 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 and when its extremely unfair minister this was probably what made this book so explosive tough 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 schroder chose to adapt the 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 completion of. This passionate but ill advised affair threatens to destroy our as life from the camera follows her fate up close. No 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 has very little against this war with me is shes the woman too and she knows and shes an actress doing she knows how much. Fear is involved. Love life is based on. Book of this. Name. Nokia 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. And i would describe it more as a film about exile and less as a film about the writer stefan. High up this is that all possible to relocate your homeland. What is home actually how do you deal with language in this kind of cultural uprooting thats the real thing. Is this a team. Once hitler rose to power spike fled austria he lived in england in the us before emigrating to brazil in 1940 the writer was also an authority on politics start something its full of its own and. He goes at it over its own notes he does feel injured some movies. For the kind of. The film delves into the psychology of a man torn apart by inner conflicts a universal theme theres a good chance of this 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 means you dont make films just for germany but for the world and thats her greatest contribution by time and. Kind of a. Because after years in exile spike committed suicide. The film was highly praised for its restrained 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. Good to be. 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 and what kind of woman is she. 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 and. Rather she actually acts out of political convictions i was in the south of. The city you know its interesting to have to understand. Money. 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 im not that you have to keep in mind 50000 person invest in his room in. Yes and he. Shot his character appears to be ruthless and without scruples. Could not. Have an issue but needs a house is born. In one pocket. And even the sequel deutschland 86. 00 charges character is at the heart of the action which begins in angola. Because of caucus friends and access to tell. Me that. That has didnt have to do i think i can invest in and thomas help i didnt ask that to be indeed the cias mc of the hundreds of the great fun he did the divide to understand this and i didnt. Get 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 well your father into your shot after you perform on the the actual stage of the coming 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 id say i have the fewest tools of the trade to get me through crises facts so i have a view hes in the bat. This was probably why i have the greatest respect for writers. Outof for me writers who can come up with their own stories are really the crime to classify me either so that could be your next challenge that maybe in my next life. Thanks for the top oh my pleasure. An insidious weapon that can have devastating effect sexual violence. Its been deployed strategically in many conflicts. The goal is to destroy the morale of europe. The courts cant seem to deal with all the cases so most of the perpetrators go unpunished. 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