Sarah Jilani

That is the opinion of critic people.

They have this opinion, but it has nothing to do with the truth.

Look, the people have never asked me, the journalists have never asked me, never, what is my private life?

They only ask the same question, always the same, because it was written in headlines, it was interesting to sell it.

After the war, Riefenstahl was arrested by the Allies and faced several denazification investigations.

And although she was never a Nazi Party member or charged with war crimes, she was found to be a fellow traveller.

In other words, a sympathiser.

Her film career was effectively at an end.

In one way, naturally, because I have suffered through this film so much that I have lost...

That was the filmmaker Lenny Riefenstahl, director of one of the most controversial propaganda movies ever made, Triumph of the Will.

They didn't know whether Ilsa, poor Ingrid Bergman, was going to go off with Laszlo or Rick.

It was very much on the fly and there was a lot of anxiety and Jack Warner.

The head of the film studio.

They grew up in the Lower East Side in New York.

They fought their way through their neighborhood.

They were tough guys.

Julie and Phil were boxers for Penn State.

They took political science courses in journalism and so forth, and they came out of Penn State and were struggling to make a living.

They went on stage.

I mean, I understand that my father was the second half of a horse's ass.