Cassie McCullagh

This is in real life.

And once he got to Austria...

the borders closed and he couldn't leave.

So he was there and became, well, kind of fell under the power, perhaps even though the spell of the Nazi party, and became part of the machinery.

And one of the big ironies that I think is being...

pointed out by Kaelman is what you just alluded to.

In Hollywood, no one respected him as an artist at all.

But when he began to be invited, told to work for the Nazi party and make films, the equipment was excellent.

The crew was experienced.

They had the best theatre actors in the country.

Not a single line in the script was

Did he have to be ashamed of all the changes were accepted without discussion?

And this was one of the paradoxes of, I guess, the people at the very highest ranks of the Nazi party.

It's a difficult one, actually, because Lenny Rufin's style appears as a character.

She, of course, was an actor who had worked with, perhaps before the war, but then went on to direct Triumph of the Will, which is, well, I guess in some terms a masterpiece of cinema.

But it used thousands and thousands of soldiers and it was Nazi propaganda.

But she really cops a comic treatment in this one, doesn't she, Geordie?

Yeah, that is the heart of the novel.

To me, it really captures how Germany was at the heart of this extraordinary era of

in thinking in world history, you know, leading from the Vienna secession right up to the war and after.