Writer and director Christopher Harvey chats on set with the actresses during the filming of Lunch with Hitler.
South African filmmaker Christopher Harvey is receiving acclaim for his short film which explores the German women who were Hitler’s food tasters. He invites Muhammad Hussain to discuss the short film, his career and viral videos.
A moment in the Wolf’s Lair, in Nazi Germany, captured in eight minutes and 12 seconds on YouTube is written, directed, stars and is filmed in South Africa by South Africans. Last week, this short film won a Safta for best online content.
Lunch with Hitler, conceptualised, written and directed by Christopher Grant Harvey, tells the story of Adolf Hitler’s food tasters – drawing inspiration from Margot Wölk, who at 95 revealed that she and 15 other young German women tasted food for Hitler in his secret bunker (Wolfsschanze i.e. the Wolf’s Lair) towards the end of World War II.
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