'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria
'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria
'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria
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political context <strong>of</strong> the fictional scenes. Also, in the other direction, the fictional scenes<br />
contextualize the documentary footage and radio broadcasts because they show the effect<br />
the bombings and radio broadcasts had on civilians (mostly women children and older<br />
men). So, the documentary footage and radio broadcasts and the fictional scenes are like<br />
two sides <strong>of</strong> the same coin. Do you think this is an accurate description?<br />
H.S.-B.: It has this side to it. But concerning the documentary footage and the film<br />
footage, I have to add one aspect. This is that I found that the scenes that I had tried to<br />
write and create, you know, they just showed how the war affected the women, what it<br />
made out <strong>of</strong> the women, and they were not enough. As I have lived through the war<br />
myself, I felt that they were somehow artificial and not in a good sense. Artificiality can<br />
be wonderful, but in that sense it was not convincing. That‟s why I changed an entire<br />
part <strong>of</strong> the film. I replaced the scenes I had first written in my screenplay with different<br />
scenes <strong>of</strong> the mother telling the fairy tale in a field <strong>of</strong> rubble that still existed in Berlin at<br />
that time. And I intercut that with the documentary footage, as you can see. And, with<br />
that, I felt that somehow a strange thing happened. It looked almost surrealistic, although<br />
it was documentary, it was the real thing that I showed, and not something that I had<br />
created out <strong>of</strong> some art design stuff, but it was true. It was true like the fairy tale, just in<br />
another sense. That was very important for me and also for the actress, and we both<br />
decided to do it this way and not to use the other footage that had already been shot, you<br />
know, about the women trying to get water, milking cows and that kind <strong>of</strong> stuff.<br />
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