The Economist asks: How should filmmakers depict Nazi Germany?

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• Episode: The Economist asks: How should filmmakers depict Nazi Germany?
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• Duration: 00:21:08
• Published: 2019-07-26 17:00

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck hoped never to make a film about the Third Reich. Anne McElvoy asks the Oscar-winning director of “The Lives of Others” what changed his mind. His new film, “Never Look Away”, was inspired by the life of the artist Gerhard Richter, who unwittingly married the daughter of an SS doctor responsible for the death of his aunt. Von Donnersmarck responds to criticisms of the film from Richter, and from those who say he stylises violence. And, how does his nation's relationship with the past shape European politics today?

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