Dad, what happened?

There was problem with suitcase and nice man.

No in New York at the airport.

I went to McDonald's for The Hunger.

When I read the script and then turned to Lily Brett's novel.

It was an astonishing feeling because it resonated with my memories of my grandfather.

It resonated with stories I'd read.

It lept off the page, the character lept off the page And there were times before we turned over a single frame of footage when I was thinking I could pull out of this, and then I wont fail.

But that's the ultimate failure is not trying.

So, um, yeah, it was a very exciting experience.

This is my daughter, a very famous in New York.

I'm a journalist.

Yes.

For the rich and the famous.

I talk to famous people.

That does not make me famous.

I know my film and I'm in the city where the film belongs because the story was invented here.

35 years ago, when Lily Brett was in New York writing that novel.

So the film is coming home, and I'm here with all the amazing people who made the film with me, and I can't even believe it's happening.

It couldn't mean more to me that Lily love the film.

It's such a personal story to her.

And we did this together.

We develop the film in the last ten years.

together She read every draft of the script.

I asked her when I had a new actor in my head if she would see herself in that person and when she agreed with so much.

And it's really our film it's our film and I couldn't be happier that I achieved that.

You and Mom never talked about the past, so I wanted to see where you grew up.

I couldn't sleep.

The bed was so lumpy.

It's good for the sex, you know, but not for the sleeping dad.

Dad dont It's difficult at the moment to have a film about the Holocaust, and people keep asking arent we over it Do we really need another film about that?

From my perspective as a German filmmaker, I never think we are over it, but we have to find new shapes and narratives to remember.

And I always knew this needs to be emotional and this needs to be entertaining.

They brought me that.

They also gave me some inspiration for the script and it was just amazing working with them both directors.

By the way.

She used to be full of peoples time of night before the Germans forced us into the ghetto.

What you and your father do this trip.

Its not easy.

The film is, you know, it's about very specific but also unfortunately very universal experience, which is not just it's about not just a massive, massive, massive act of violence, but the generational, intergenerational consequences of that.

And I think that it's important to acknowledge that it's very, very much about the history of anti-Semitism in the history of the Jewish experience.

But it's also a story about how a legacy of violence affects anybody.

And there are so many groups who carry trauma in this way.

And hopefully an examination of trauma like this looking backwards can help us think about the legacy that we create moving forwards.

But what it means for me professionally and emotionally is that a subject that I've been writing about for a very long time, which really is the catastrophic consequences nature both my parents were imprisoned in Nazi death camps.

So I grew up surrounded by grief and the understanding of What the danger of hatred and the danger of indifference because indifference just leads to hatred.

But the movie is so loving.

That's what I love about it.

We Didn't.

Cry, but you can cry if you wanted to.