(gentle music) - It's interesting to show a female arc, which tells a story of trauma, of grief, of really difficult things.
Kasia is not being a victim, she wants to get power back in her life somehow and a sense of purpose.
She wants to go back and be a soldier.
I love the scripts that tell stories of women like this, 'cause we are not used to seeing many women stories from war.
- There's so many assumptions about women at that time, but that's the exciting thing about these scripts is we dig deeper into female roles in the war effort, and just how important they were.
Connie and Lois both now work for the ambulance service.
It was amazing to get to research female roles in the war.
In these roles, I think, she feels alive, because she's doing something that's distracting her from everything that she's not quite facing up to.
- Connie has to battle with being the supportive older sister, the friend, but also telling Lois what sometimes she doesn't want to hear.
- [Julia] And I think that'd be an interesting thing to watch play out in their relationship.
- I loved that this scene was about them meeting, not them fighting.
- The two women connect, because they're both in such a dark and grief-stricken place.
And, I think in the face of war, that happened a lot to many people.
It's interesting, I think, to see in the relationship between Robina and Lois.
Robina maybe begins to understand why Lois is choosing to do her bit.
- And she sees these women just doing it all differently, and it's a kind of emotional chaos.
She's grown into being this mother that she never thought she would be.
So all of these things are making Robina question everything about the status quo and women during wartime.
- We know that war plays out on the bodies of women everywhere.
The Marga storyline is set in the Lebensborn program.
So it was young women who had to make pure racial Aryan children for the regime.
- These girls were born into this ideology, and I think it's important to give an insight in growing up in this times.
When you play a role, you have your own opinion on the things the role does.
Me as Miriam, I would say that Marga is burning for something so wrong.
I think if you are a teenage girl, you are always passionate about something.
This is the future of the nation.
It doesn't matter that it's the absolute horror for me, I just have to be strong.
- When you think of war movies, it's mostly men's stories, so I think it's really important that we tell lots of female stories here, and it's brave.
Brave stories.
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