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Director's Statement
I have wanted to make another film in black and white for many years and would have preferred at least four of my previous films to have been so, but it was said to be impossible for commercial and thereby financial reasons. But this time I had the fortune to work with a producer who was open to the possibility and since new digital cameras offer the choice to make a film in both colour as well as black and white I decided to shoot it in colour and then make my decision which came to favour black and white, after making careful comparisons in post-production during the editing and colouring. I find that colours often can distract the eye from seeing the whole picture, the real story. Black and white tends to focus our attention on the drama, on the actions, the expressions. It is wrongfully accused of being old, when in fact it is just another "effect" added to tell the story in a certain way. It was also especially motivated in this film, where we have added documentary footage from World War II, which is black and white and so it blends in better and becomes a more natural part of the rest of the film.