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00:05-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de.
00:05This is the American Forces Network in Frankfurt.
00:08Come on, I just understand you.
00:13It's not here, I'm going to give you a chance.
00:22You and your father make a great double act.
00:29They have written so wonderful about the music of our grandparents like anyone else.
00:33He is the most famous Wagnerianer of the world.
00:36I mean, after the life of a certain Adolf Hitler.
00:42A soul trope was a terrible idea.
00:45There was one moment, Thomas Mann's return to Germany in 1949, which seemed like a good context for a film,
00:52especially given the family things that happened in the Mann family.
00:57The love triangle with Klaus, Erika and Thomas.
01:04And it kind of coincided with this amazing moment in history.
01:09So I thought, okay, maybe that could be an interesting film.
01:13I didn't know so much about Erika Mann.
01:16But the fact that she was writing and acting and racing, those were the things that were very important to
01:25me.
01:25The many languages she spoke, that she really was a citizen of the world.
01:32That she was very much in a deep connection to her brother.
01:37That she was capable of love.
01:40And that she decided to leave everything she did behind after the death of her brother,
01:46in order to be with her father and to help him fulfill his, I don't know, chosen duty in life.
01:55That was enough for me.
02:00It's maybe your last trip.
02:07I want to go home.
02:09Papa.
02:10Where is that?
02:11Water for the fellow people.
02:22Water for the arrival.
02:33Will there you be a mystery that'll be symbolized?
02:38So we have to set this fate.
02:45Now so.
02:49I'll set myself.
02:52Good.
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