Lars von Trier -- "I understand Hitler..." — Transcript

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1. 0:00we'll take just two more questions short
2. 0:02go ahead and then you um Kate M from the
3. 0:06times of London um my question follows
4. 0:08on from the German romantic thing can
5. 0:09you talk a bit about your German roots
6. 0:13and the gothic aspect of this film and
7. 0:15also you gossip gossip Gothic and also
8. 0:19you
9. 0:20mentioned you mentioned in a Danish uh
10. 0:23film magazine also about your interest
11. 0:26in the Nazi aesthetic and you talked
12. 0:29about that uh German Roots at the same
13. 0:32time can you tell me tell us a bit more
14. 0:33about that yes what I the only thing I
15. 0:36can tell is that I I I I I I thought I
16. 0:39was a Jew for a long time and was very
17. 0:42happy being a
18. 0:43Jew
19. 0:45um
20. 0:47then later on came Susanna beia and then
21. 0:50suddenly I wasn't so happy about being a
22. 0:52Jew uh no that was a joke sorry
23. 0:56um I but it turned out that I was not a
24. 0:59Je even if I'd been a Jew I would be
25. 1:01kind of a second rate Jew because there
26. 1:03are kind of the there are kind of a
27. 1:06hierarchy in the you kind of the Jewish
28. 1:09population but anyway I I know I really
29. 1:12wanted to be a Jew and I and then I
30. 1:14found out that I was really a Nazi you
31. 1:17know uh because my family was German
32. 1:22Harman uh which also gave me some
33. 1:26pleasure so I'm kind of a
34. 1:32yeah sir I I I
35. 1:37I what can I say um I I understand
36. 1:43Hitler but uh I'm I I I I think he did
37. 1:48some wrong things yes absolutely but but
38. 1:50but I I can see him sitting in in his
39. 1:53bunker in the
40. 1:56end but there will come a point at at
41. 2:00the end of this that will come I will I
42. 2:02will no I'm just saying that that that I
43. 2:06I think I understand the
44. 2:09man he's not what you would call a good
45. 2:12guy but I um yeah I I understand much
46. 2:17about him and I sympathize with him a
47. 2:19little bit yes not but come on I I'm not
48. 2:22for the second world war and I'm not
49. 2:25against Jews Susanna be no no not even
50. 2:28Susanna beia
51. 2:30um that was also a joke I am of course
52. 2:34uh very much for used no not too much
53. 2:37because Israel is a pain in the ass but
54. 2:40uh still um how can I get out of this
55. 2:43sentence by by another question I am uh
56. 2:49there's your salvation oh there's your
57. 2:51but no I just want to say about the Arts
58. 2:53of of the I I'm I'm very much
59. 2:56for spear spear I like very Albert I
60. 3:01liked he was also maybe one of God's
61. 3:04best children but he he had some talent
62. 3:07that was kind
63. 3:08of possible for him to to use during
64. 3:14um okay I'm a
65. 3:17Nazi completely different note um Peter
66. 3:20Peter H newspaper a question for Mr vont
67. 3:25Mr vont uh Melancholia would you
68. 3:26consider this your answer to the
69. 3:28Hollywood Blockbuster and if not could
70. 3:29you envision doing a film on a grander
71. 3:31scale than
72. 3:33this on a grander scale
73. 3:38yeah yeah that's what we we Nazis we uh
74. 3:42we we have a tendency to try to do
75. 3:44things on a greater
76. 3:47scale
77. 3:49um yeah maybe maybe you could persuade
78. 3:52me into uh to uh yeah
79. 3:55the final
80. 3:58solution was journalists no I'm I'm I'm
81. 4:02I'm well on that on that very very
82. 4:05strange note I'm afraid our time is up
83. 4:09thank you very much you all for being
84. 4:11here
85. 4:12[Applause]
86. 4:13[Music]