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"I
didn't take a movie for a long time. I just felt like I
couldn't. I was feeling I was drowning," Kruger told Reuters.
"I just needed time for myself to get my life back in order,"
she added.
Kruger, known for films such as "Inglourious Basterds" and
"Troy," plays Katja in director Fatih Akin's "In the Fade,"
about a woman who marries her husband while he is in prison.
Years later, a devastating tragedy leaves her husband dead and
Katja on a mission for justice, suspicious that Neo-Nazis might
be behind her loss.
German director Akin, who is of Turkish descent, said he wanted
to explore racism and specifically Neo-Nazis in Germany within
the film.
"There are people in this country, which I consider is my
country, who want to kill me just because I look like how I look
like with black hair and brown eyes. They want to kill me for
it, for nothing. This bothers me," Akin said.
"I don't like that, so I have a feeling that I need to express
my anger so the film gave me the opportunity to express it on
paper and later on film," he added.
The film has garnered both Akin and Kruger strong praise from
critics, and Kruger was named best actress at France's Cannes
Film Festival last year.
"In the Fade" is Germany's entry to the Oscars, one of nine
films short-listed in the foreign language film category.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross for Reuters TV; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy
and Cynthia Osterman)
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