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The romantic drama sees Knightley play Rachael
Morgan, who moves to Germany to be with her husband, a British
colonel who has a leading role in the reconstruction effort in
Hamburg. They move in with a German widower and his troubled
daughter.
Her co-stars, Australian Jason Clarke who plays her husband
Lewis and Swedish Alexander Skarsgard, who plays a German
architect also attended the world premiere at London's
Picturehouse Central on Monday.
"It's very relevant for now. It's about building bridges, it's
about how we see each other as human beings and we don't
demonize each other and that's obviously something that we need
to do right now," Knightley said.
The port city of Hamburg suffered a devastating bombing raid by
the Allied forces in July 1943, known as "Operation Gomorrah",
that killed some 40,000 people and caused the destruction of
swathes of the city.
"I knew nothing about the rebuilding of Germany ... I haven't
thought about how unbelievably difficult it must have been to
not only physically rebuild these places but also mentally for
English and German people ... who had been enemies, who had
literally killed each other for six years, to suddenly forgive
and move forward," Knightley said.
Clarke said: "We've benefited so much from the Lewis Morgans who
put Europe together ... guys like him built it up and made
Germany and Europe what it is today, we all stand on the
threshold of wanting to tear it down."
"The Aftermath" opens in cinemas in Britain on March 1, and in
the United States on March 15.
(Reporting by Emily Roe; Writing by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by
Alison Williams)
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