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‘From Hilde, With Love’ Director Andreas Dresen Says He Sympathises With Berlinale Leaders Over Far-Right Invitation Controversy: “It Must Have Been Hell”
Andreas Dresen and actress Liv Lisa Fries this morning discussed their Nazi resistance drama and recent controversy for the Berlin Film Festival.
Filmmaker Andreas Dresen and actress Liv Lisa Fries took part morning in the press conference for new drama From Hilde, With Love, which debuts this weekend in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival. Dresen’s affecting and resonant film, set in Berlin during the Second World War, charts the little known story of Hilde and Hans Coppi, a young couple who courageously become members of an anti-Nazi group known as The Red Orchestra (Die Rote Kapelle). The German director told the media he was initially attracted by the “humanity” of the story and the character of Hilde Coppi, who he described as “such a decent and brave woman.”
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