Moritz Bleibtreu sees the cinema threatened

Iris and Oliver Berben, Friedrich Ani and Moritz Bleibtreu – when so many big names are united in a project, we can count on a great success. In fact, the ZDF with the miniseries "The Secretary" takes a step in the direction of the broken figures so often invoked. The apparently uninvolved protocol is in Freya's interrogation room and records what the criminals confess. But Freya has her own dark story and an even stranger and darker vision of justice.

Not only did this anti-heroine, who prompted Moritz Bleibtreu to play the role of Freya's brother, Jo, he said in an interview with our editors: "I found the project exciting because the pace narrative is very slow, "said the reporter," The characters are developing, have secrets that you do not really understand, which is the interest, and finally, things become really nice. " Still, it's not always the project itself that makes an actor a voicing actor, says Bleibtreu. "The circumstances of life are much more important than you think, we all live a relatively normal life, and I can, with all my freedom, choose only what I am offered, and that's more, sometimes less, sometimes good and sometimes worse. "

He sees the evolution of the international series market, which is also clearly marked by "Die Protokollantin", with mixed feelings. "What's happening with this art form of the series is exciting and welcome.But the cinema suffers and divides more and more into public films and art films with fewer viewers. It's a pity. "Bleibtreu, who produced his first film with the gangster drama" Only God Can Judge Me ", wants to make his own contribution to" bring German cinema to life ".

Moritz Bleibtreu is not a drug addict of the series, on the contrary. Even in his professional life, the series irritates him less. "I do not see myself playing a role for several seasons, it's not my cup of tea, I love stories with the end.The end is one of the most important dramaturgical parts. where there is no end, there is no reflection where there is no end, nothing new begins.It is the problem of the series : you're waiting to see how it goes, it's artistically a dubious concept, I think. "

It is therefore also important for him to point out that "The Secretary" is not a series for him, but "a film that lasts five hours". Which does not mean that the viewer will not want to know how to proceed from one episode to the next. Because despite the silent narrative creates Nina Grosse, who wrote the scripts after an idea of ​​Friedrich Ani and staged with Samira Radsi to constantly tighten the tension.

"The minute witness" is also an example of the fact that something is happening in front of and behind the camera in terms of gender equality. "It is important to welcome and to make more and more women write scripts and realize, also because it changes a lot for actresses," says Moritz Bleibtreu. "The actresses fall from the clbadical theater sometime in the hole between lover and nurse, between the two there is not much.As an actress son, I know very well this problem and I hope see more and more exciting characters aged 35 to 60, as more and more women choose the content. "