Moviestars

My niece Helen had called a few days ago to tell me she will be in Berlin this week. She's starring in a movie and was invited to the first night celebrations at Kulturbrauerei, Prenzlauerberg.
I bought a ticket for myself, and we met yesterday evening. She was dressed in black like a real moviestar, looking smashing with her red hair. So of course we had to have some pics taken of her on the red carpet. I hope she'll send them soon, so I can show them off here.
The atmosphere in the cinema was great, all those collegues working together on a movie that was not easy at all to do: on Oświęcim and the Auschwitz holocaust terror, relations between polish and germans, life then and now and how to live with the history of such a place always around you.
Helen and her class mates had been visiting the Auschwitz museum last year when the movie was done, so the film crew had asked them to join. She actually had a speaking part, and was mentioned in the credits.
After the show and the moving speeches of director, actors, and Wolfgang Thierse, vicepresident of the german parliament, the invited guests left for the party, and I hugged Helen goodbye and went back home to watch tv. ZDF "heute nacht" had done a short interview with her, so I was curious to see it. But they didn't show her after all.
Anyway, the movie is one of the best I have seen this year, talking about such a difficult topic in a way you don't feel pushed into any direction and are allowed to see and think for yourself. It's a love story as well, and a story about a boy growing up through his work and especially by meeting the former prisoner whose self set task it is to tell the story of his murdered friends and to keep their memory.
The young director Robert Thalheim and the polish and german actors did a wonderful job. No wonder actor Alexander Fehling got the award as best young german actor in 2007 for this movie.
See for yourself, if you have the chance in your local cinema, and in 2008 on german tv, ZDF: "Am Ende kommen Touristen"