We designed the movie on the basis of the interviews we did about six years before we could start with the shooting. It went well: I urgently want to go for another one – a full feature movie next time!ĭid you design the film with the four stories in mind? I have done many documentaries before, but a movie and, in this case, a historic movie that was special and a debut. The hardest was the fictional aspect, because it was a debut – we did a complete shooting of a 110-minute fiction movie with four chapters, plots, and many actors. You wrote, directed, and produced this film. It was a very special and very emotional rescue story because those who survived could only do so because there were some Germans – not many, but some – who were risking something to show humanity. It was very fascinating to get to know that about 7,000 Jewish Berliners tried to resist their deportation to the camps in the East – and tried to survive in their own hometown, in their neighborhood – but with new identities. Thanks, Tom, I am glad you liked our movie – it’s great that many people are touched by its true story, which we mixed with a feature movie based on the interviews with the four protagonists. What interested you about this particular project? In what follows, Räfle and I discuss what it means to do justice to this chapter in history, and the challenges behind realizing this project.Ĭongratulations on this beautiful film! You have directed a number of documentaries before. In what follows, Räfle and I discuss his new film The Invisibles, which uses documentary and narrative feature to tell the story of four real-life survivors in Nazi Berlin and how they hid in plain sight. His documentaries Blitzhochzeit in Dänemark and Die Stunde davor each received nominations for Best German TV Documentary from the Prix Europa. Der Kandidat, received honorable mention at the Max Ophüls Awards. Die Heftmacher earned the Grimme Award for best work of TV journalism. Claus Räfle has directed over forty feature-length documentaries for German television.
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