The era of Holocaust period pieces is over, according to Hagai Levi, director of Scenes From a Marriage and The Affair.
Levi’s new series, Etty, which is based on the diaries of Etty Hillesum, places a modern spin on a Holocaust story by setting it in a “contemporary” Amsterdam, although the show is not rooted in a specific time period.
Audiences will notice immediately that the clothes, buildings and technology seem far beyond what they were in the 1940s (the main character spends much of her time in jeans) and this is exactly the atmosphere Levi was going for.
“The people who lived in Amsterdam in the 1940s didn’t feel like they were in a period film, they lived their lives in modern Amsterdam, and I wanted to show how they experienced that,” Levi told Deadline the day before Etty’s Series Mania special screening. “From the beginning
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