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The asteroid Horus remains
on a collision course with the Earth.

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It is expected to strike the French
city of La Rochelle in eight days.

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Europe finds itself
within the so-called "kill zone".

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It's a world where everyone
is on the verge of a nervous breakdown,

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everyone's in a crazy state of mind,

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and all the conflicts
are being driven towards a crescendo.

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I've never seen anything
remotely like "8 Days".

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Stop!

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We've waited long enough to see

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similar series
finally being made in Germany.

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With "8 Days",
we really wanted to be bigger than life.

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8 DAYS
MAKING OF

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And... action.

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It's about seeing how people react,

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how people become so extreme
in such an extreme situation,

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irrespective of who you are,
your age, where you live.

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What are you waiting for?
Get the ticket!

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It's the ultimate extreme situation:

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The world will end in eight days,
what are you gonna do?

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What will I do in the time I have left,
what's most important to me?

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We can sleep when we're dead!

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With the official
evacuation efforts in full flow,

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people have been taking to the streets
in all major German cities.

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Everyone has their very personal way

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of coming to terms with their fate.

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I'm gonna shoot you all.

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Stop!

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Stop!

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Jonas!

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The thing I liked from the very start

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was this situation where you have...

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It's not like the real-life situation,

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where you have Europe
closing its doors to refugees,

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instead it's us who need to flee
and everyone else rejects us.

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The script was written in a classic
kind of writer's room scenario,

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with Rafael as showrunner,

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and the other writers
were very cooperative.

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We met up with them regularly.

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It was actually
fairly soon after film school.

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We were sitting there
as a young production company,

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and we wanted to make a TV series
that had never been made before.

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We managed to spark some interest
from Frank Jastfelder.

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He thought the material was great,

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and he wanted to make it with us.

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And... action.

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What I find cool
about Sky as a broadcaster

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is that they're very open to new things,

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and they want to make TV

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that's different
from your average German TV show.

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It's not what you expect from German TV.

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It has a different kind of intensity

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regarding the acting, the action,

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the drama...

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They're all things
we haven't seen before on German TV,

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especially not in this concentration.

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Look through here.

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Aim carefully.

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And shoot!

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The shoots were very physical,

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and I was down with that,

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I enjoyed that.

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We always wanted it to be set in Berlin.

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There's also the political side,
so we wanted to shoot in the capital.

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I don't think we could've found so many
elements in one place anywhere else.

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In terms of different
architectural styles,

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different eras,

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from large hotels
to sci-fi-like buildings.

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Our set designer Christian Goldbeck
did an amazing job

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in finding all these locations.

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The government bunker
was shot at the velodrome,

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the modern part of the Olympic stadium

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and the congress centre,

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so we used three locations
for the bunker.

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We have the same basic set elements
in all three locations.

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Here we have the security tunnel

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where the bunker inhabitants
are screened.

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This is where everyone gets
their bunker pass with QR code

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that everyone has to wear on their arm.

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And...action.

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This is the Steiners'
bunker accommodation.

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Our new home.
- I get top bunk!

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My husband is crazy,
my husband is totally crazy.

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He's not my husband.

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We had some
really cool sets and locations.

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The bunker was crazy...

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it was really impressive.

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Three, two, one. Action.

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The government bunker
was one of the most demanding sets,

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because we had
lots of extras in those scenes.

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It's cool to go shoot the apocalypse,

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you don't do that every day.

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We had several studio sets for "8 Days".

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A large one in Klaus's bunker

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that we built from scratch.

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And... action.

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Your childish behaviour
proves I was right.

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It's for your own safety.

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Let me go!
- Stop it!

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It's gonna be hell up there in a week.

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People are gonna go nuts,
you stay here.

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Let me out!

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It's exciting as an actor,
because it's so extreme,

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and that means you yourself can be
more extreme in how you approach it.

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Your character, how they might behave.

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Here you have the feeling that...

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the situation affords you
the opportunity to do things,

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to try things out and talk about them,

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things that in a normal situation
wouldn't even cross your mind.

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And that's great,
and certainly very creative.

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With similarly demanding shoots

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you'd have maybe
five or six days that are so extreme.

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Here it was many more,

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because every scene
is a matter of life or death,

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because the end is in sight,

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and everyone is struggling to survive.

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Can we talk about this calmly?

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Dad and Jonas are somewhere in Siberia!

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And that really appealed to me.

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It was just exciting,
and a new experience.

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You've got to help us.

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I don't know what else I can do.
Please!

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Herrmann, please.

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If only she'd stayed
on that fucking train.

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Herrmann!

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We were shooting
these civil war-like scenes,

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which landed us in Bild.

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HAVE YOU GUN INSANE?

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It was quite amazing.

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We were shooting these scenes
with barricades and burning barrels,

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and then you had the actual Chancellery
in the background.

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We see in one scene

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Berlin Central Station,
and it's been destroyed.

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We can't actually
destroy it for real, of course.

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Sure, in that situation,
Berlin has to fall.

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Lots of extras, water spraying,
turned-over cars...

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I really enjoy turning up for work,

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I get quite pumped, it's exciting.

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It's never too late.
- It is too late.

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Stefan, Michael and I all agreed

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that we wanted to see
at least one penis in the series.

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It was the first time I got
my little fella out for the camera.

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And that was... interesting.

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It will come.

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And it will be huge.
- Robin!

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What are you doing, Robin?
- Why are you scared?

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And all the other stuff that we decided
you never see on German TV and cinema...

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It fits our narrative.

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We're very physical and everyone
wants to break free from convention.

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Hello.

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Welcome on set.

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Just your average day here.

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I thought it was cool
that we could find so many extras

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who were up for it
and in a great mood doing it,

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because these things
are difficult to manufacture.

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Oh, yes, the wild party.

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And...action!

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Totally excessive.

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You'll all be over here,

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and we'll have girls and coke
all over the place, the whole shebang.

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I'm really proud of our cast.

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I mean, what other TV series
has such a terrific cast?

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And it's great that Suse Marquardt,
our casting director,

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cast so many up-and-coming stars

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alongside very established actors,

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like Henry Hübchen,
Christiane Paul or Mark Waschke.

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I'm very happy with the cast.

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They all work
so fantastically well in their roles.

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And that's doubly important
for a series like this.

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Yes!

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A proper fisticuffs.

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The winner gets to move into the bunker,
the loser is out.

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And now we are all
going to sail into the light together.

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Into the light!

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SALVATION

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I call the boat
the "crucifixion steamboat"

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where we re-enacted the Passion
of Jesus and the Crucifixion.

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I came up with the idea of,

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rather than simply
having the cross upright,

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to lay it on the ship's funnel
which can then be raised,

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so our depiction of the crucifixion
could be that little bit more intense,

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whereby we slowly raise the funnel,

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while he's being nailed to the cross.

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That was my favourite design element.

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The boat was great.

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The way they decked it out
was really cool.

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It had a really nice
improvised look to it.

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All that decoration
on our holy steamboat, on our Ark.

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It's really great.

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Actually...

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I want the nail in focus
in the foreground

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and the screams out of focus
in the background.

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Right.

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You'd think they'd be chalk and cheese.

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You've got Stefan Ruzowitzky,
the experienced, Oscar-winning director,

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alongside Michael Krummenacher,

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who has only made one or two films,

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but they really complement each other.

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It was really nice to work with Michael,

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because he's a highly focused
yet relaxed director.

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We've got brother and sister,
man and wife...

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Yeah, and Pinocchio and...

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When I found out that I was
going to be working alongside Stefan,

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I was excited,
and saw it as an opportunity.

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But rather than splitting the episodes,

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we divided work
according to subject matter.

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Perfect.

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The idea is for each director
to concentrate on their own stories,

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and then they'll be woven together
like a rug, later in editing.

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Thank you.

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We want viewers
on the edge of their seats.

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We want sex, we want violence.

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"8 Days" is simply a wild ride.

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You can never be sure
what's going to happen next.

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Nothing in this world is innocent,
simple or straightforward anymore.

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It's going to be something special.

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Intense, violent,

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everyone giving it their all.

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You're so close to the characters.

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Like you're there with them,
feeling their hope, their fear.

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Almost coming-of-age.

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There's some really fantastic
characters and plot twists.

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The things that unites us all
is that we all believe in the story,

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and that we all
really want to see it unfold.

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There has been rioting
in several German cities.

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The Chancellor has invoked martial law.

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Is there anyone there?

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8 DAYS

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