Bleibtreu: From my point of view, I'm very happy about that. It's think it's great, especially that this movie comes particularly out of Germany. It might make people understand that people in Germany evolved enough after those terrible events fifty years ago to be able to think about this, and also to be able to tell a story. I think that, as we are a completely different country now, people also learned a lot from what happened fifty years ago. It is something that influences all our lives in Germany. It's something that is like a big weight that we carry on our shoulders everywhere we go in the world. So I think the only way to deal with it is to deal with it. And to make movies about it and let the world know that we--my generation of people--know that what happened back then is the most horrible nightmare that could ever happen to mankind. So I think it's good that particularly this movie comes out of Germany.
AboutFilm: Do you think that this topic has not been dealt with enough in the past in Germany?
Bleibtreu: Let's say not that it has not been dealt with enough--it has not been dealt with right, I think. This is the biggest problem. What happened in the generation of our moms and dads is a big denial of what happened, because people still had something to do with it. They were still directly connected to it, because their parents and grandparents were still some Nazi guys. So, what first happened was denial. And now my generation of people, the younger people, they have a different approach to it. I think the approach now is much more intelligent, because we are not just trying to deny it. We are saying, "Yes, this is something that infects our life, and we need to do something about it, and we need to show the world that we are a different country now, that has reflected, and has also learned something from these incredible, horrible events." That's why I think these kind of movies help a lot. They help a lot in dealing with this bad history. We need to make the world understand that the people living now in Germany, my generation of people, has nothing with this stuff anymore. We are different now.
