SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill

May 16, 2001 —

Director Sally Potter had an interview with the BBC about her movie. She talks about the theme, personal connections and a aspect of the film. Here is a little of what she had to say.

The film is about survival. Why did you want to look at this theme?

For anybody that grew up in the 20th century, I think we all grew up under the shadow of the war. I'd spent a lot of my life trying to make sense of that. Yet the Holocaust, in the way it was being portrayed, was in danger of becoming pornographic. What I wanted to do was make a film about the fact the Holocaust didn't win. Not all the Jews were killed. Not all the gypsies were killed. People did survive, and the memories of those that did die survives in the celebration of the lives of the people that lived through it.

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