An Oscar-winning director reveals the drive to make HBO’s Emmy-nominated film starring Ben Foster as Holocaust survivor Harry Haft.
When I embarked on the journey to make this film, it didn’t occur to me that I was telling any story other than Harry’s. In fact, the resonance ofrings too true today. While there is never any moral equivalency to be made to the horrors of the Holocaust or any other genocide , as I look around the world today, I am struck by the growing apathy for the war in Ukraine as it grinds on.
We now live in a world of total distrust. A world of villains. Scapegoats. Conspiracy theories. Where does it all go? During preproduction, we decided we needed to visit Auschwitz before filming began. The systematic elimination of millions of people is harrowing, to say the least. While we were standing on top of one of the crematoriums and listening to our guide speak, he took us back to the early 1930s. The rise of the Nazi party. The hate toward Jews in their propaganda.
The cry of “Never Again” was meant specifically to coalesce us as a society around the common cause of not letting genocide return. In watching the film I made, I am reminded often how as a society we are failing at that. The effects of racism and fascism that lead to war should be intolerable to us always.Read More About:
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