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Interview with Claes Bang on "Ich ist ein Anderer"

Interview with Claes Bang on "Ich ist ein Anderer"

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"It‘s sort of set in stone how a Nazi is portrayed on screen"

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Since the lead in Ruben Östlunds social satire The Square brought
him international sucess in 2017, Claes Bang established himself as
one of the most prominent actors of the European film scene. In
Felix Randau's biographically inspired meditation on subjective and
historical truths, Ich ist ein Anderer, the Danish actor shows once
again his faible for murky characters. Premiering at Locarno's
Piazza Grande, the historical investigation piece sees him in the
role of the real-life impostor Felix Kersten, the massage therapist
of Heinrich Himmler, who falsly claimed to have saved hundreds of
thousands of people during the Nazi era. In an interview with
Lidanoir, Bang talks about approaching the opaque character, the
story's relevance in times of fake news and opinions, and the
unexpected difficulties around the film's take on its notorious
supporting character.