Saturday 6 December 2008

Director Bryan Singer About Being Jewish in Berlin

Bryan Singer is a Hollywood director (The Usual Suspects, The X Men) , who is about to release "Valkyrie" a film aboutthe July 20th Plot to assassinate Hitler.

In an interview to UGO he says:
"[...] I was somewhat stressed about this during the filming, but it was nothing compared to the stress of being Jewish and shooting this movie in Berlin. The last thing I’m thinking about is what Page Six was saying, when my apartment was next to the plaza where they burned the books."

(there is also information about the film itself, although obviously Singer portrays the July 22 plotters in a very positive light, mentioning that they were opposed to the murder of Jews. That might be correct - although many of them certainly belonged to the traditionally conservative and antisemite Prussian aristocracy, but this has hardly been their motivation to assassinate Hitler, and they have done it because of the German defeat in the War).

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