'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria

only when you forget about scientific things, and when you really learn to read the eyes
and movements of the child, what the child really wants to say, and then you can help.
R.R.: So it‟s a very physical process.
H.S.-B.: It‟s a very physical process and a very spiritual process at the same time. It‟s
both.
R.R.: So, do you have grandchildren?
H.S.-B.: No, not yet. I‟m dying to have them (laughs…)
R.R.: So, about the Brecht poem. Why did you include the Brecht poem at the beginning
of the film? How did you decide to include it? How did that come about?
H.S.-B.: It‟s a poem that impressed me very much when I was young because it was
written in 1933, which was the moment when the Nazis came to power and in an
incredibly prophetic way it spoke about what was about to happen. And I wanted to
confront this Brecht vision of the mother with my own vision of my mother.
R.R.: So, my next question is related to that last question. Brecht used scene titles at
the beginning of his plays to introduce the historical and political setting of the action,
which is about to happen. Does the poem act as a scene title for the film because it tells
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