Hanns Zischler
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Nov 2, 2026
Sonia MangatHOST
The drama follows the true story of writer Thomas Mann and his daughter who travel across post-war Germany as Thomas accepts the Goethe Prize.
Sonia MangatHOST
And Sandra jumped at the chance to act opposite Hans Zischler.
Sandra HüllerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hans Zischler is somebody that we know and appreciate in Germany very much.
Sandra HüllerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's a wonderful colleague and a great writer.
Sandra HüllerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
An amazing person to be around and Very inspiring.
José ArroyoHOST
He's beautiful as well.
Michael GlassHOST
Hans Zischler, who has a long story career, one I'm not familiar with.
Michael GlassHOST
He...
Michael GlassHOST
He says he's appeared in a few Vin Vendors films.
Jason WisemanHOST
I think you were always amazing.
Jason WisemanHOST
I thought that Hans Zichler was also great.
Jason WisemanHOST
I don't know enough about Thomas Mann probably to like really form an opinion.
Jason WisemanHOST
I mean, I think it's, I think it's a beautifully shot, like well acted.
Richard CrouseGUEST
We're watching a period piece where, you know, part of it kind of feels like perhaps you're watching old news footage, but it's got a really lovely feel to it.
Richard CrouseGUEST
And you have the story of Thomas Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning writer, and his daughter, who is a writer and activist named Erica, They're played by Hans Zischler and Sandra Hewler.
Richard CrouseGUEST
Sandra Hewler is one of the most in-demand international actresses working today.
Richard CrouseGUEST
And again, like these other two movies, this is about the performances.
James BriefelHOST
And yeah, kind of like boots-on-the-ground journey.
James BriefelHOST
through uh through 1949 Germany and one of the key opening scenes is the shot from the windshield car class perspective driving through seeing Germany still in ruins still recovering still basically trying to Define what exactly Germany is going to be and that's a really key part of of this whole film So self-exiled Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Mann, who's played by Hans Zischler, is returning back to Germany to accept the Goethe Prize, which is like an arts and arts prize.
James BriefelHOST
He fled Germany in 1933 to escape Nazism.
James BriefelHOST
And in the meantime, he's now basically returned to Germany in a...
John PowersCORRESPONDENT
But Klaus has bitter feelings toward their remote and censorious father, whose colossal shadow dwarfs them both.
John PowersCORRESPONDENT
Played by the shrewd veteran Hans Zischler, Mann begins his tour of the homeland with Erika serving as a glorified assistant.
John PowersCORRESPONDENT
She runs interference, edits his speeches, even shaves him.
John PowersCORRESPONDENT
He's as pampered as a panda.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
so just to kind of and it's a slow build and the and the kind of perverse thing there was you know it took a huge effort to create that world i mean we actually found the street in a city called legnisa which used to be germany before the war so it has the right architecture and the street was a little bit you know um derelict because it's in a kind of impoverished area of Legnica so so half the house most of the houses look pretty damaged anyway but we added some ruins in the foreground of our own and kind of added a little bit in the perspective of kind of damaged digitally but very little uh and then we had great extras which i've been choosing extras for for months and months before the film just to have the right kind of faces and you know in fact all the extras were screen tested So we have all that in these little situations, and then the camera doesn't pan to show them.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
I remember Hans Zischler, who plays Thomas Mann, he was saying, Pavel, there's all these amazing things.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
Why don't you get a close-up or pan or something? I don't know.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
This is the shot.
5 MINS LATER
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
You know, look how this film is growing.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
Some actors enjoy that.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
Like Hans Zischler, who played Thomas, came and I showed him a few times.
Pawel PawlikowskiGUEST
He said, yeah, great, great.
Dan BayerPANELIST
I was really impressed with the construction and everything.
Dan BayerPANELIST
Sandra Huller and Hans Zichler, I thought were both fantastic, giving really, really good performances.
Dan BayerPANELIST
It ends way too early for me.
Dan BayerPANELIST
I would have happily sat for another 80 minutes to watch the continuation of this story.
Josh LarsenHOST
And I think it's powerful if it is just a family story.
Josh LarsenHOST
And I think that's where Huller is so crucial in this because Thomas Mann here, played by Hans Zischler, great, incredible performance, but very grave, very serious.
Josh LarsenHOST
Mm-hmm.
Josh LarsenHOST
And Huler brings in a little balance where she allows emotions to come into play and admits to things and will talk about things that her father will not.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, this drama follows the German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a journey through Germany in 1949.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
Hans Zischler plays Mann, returning after years of exile, with Sandra Hüller as the daughter accompanying him through receptions, speeches, and encounters with people whose wartime histories have become inconvenient.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
There's a wonderfully uncomfortable social comedy running through this film.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
Everybody knows how to welcome a famous writer.
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