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A love story in the death camp: Guilt, horror, shame and the power of passion come together in poignant Holocaust drama The Tattooist Of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, from New Zealand, created a bestselling book that tells such an incredible story it needed to be brought to the screen.
Add to that a cast including 5,000 extras and a set that sank into the mud, and it would be fair to say the team behind the TV adaptation of 2018 novel The Tattooist Of Auschwitz faced some huge challenges. 'What drew me to the story is that you have two people allowing love to exist in a place like that,' says World On Fire star Jonah Hauer-King, who plays young Lali and who had to go on a diet to look like a concentration camp victim. Unlike the book, the series shows snatches of their married life in the 60s before Gita's death (the song over the closing credits, Barbra Streisand's Love Will Survive, has been released as a single), and it was important for everyone involved that the story didn't just start and end in Auschwitz.
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