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Harvey Keitel On ‘The Tattooist Of Auschwitz’ Series & Playing Lali Sokolov: “Even The Tragedy Of The Holocaust Could Not Kill Mankind’s Ability To Love”
Harvey Keitel On ‘The Tattooist Of Auschwitz’: “Even The Tragedy Of The Holocaust Could Not Kill Mankind’s Ability To Love”
Having secured the book rights, Synchronicity founder and series EP, Claire Mundell, was focused on getting Keitel to play Sokolov and showed his then-UK agent footage of Morris’ time with him. “Through each personal story told where an audience can imagine themselves in the shoes of the protagonist, we put a face of this horror into the minds of generations of human beings who have not witnessed it.” Mundell concedes there was a concern that the viewers “can’t take tough material, that it would be too upsetting,” although she adds that “the emotion of Lali and Gita’s love story pulls audiences through to the end.”
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