Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors.
It also welcomes future deniers.
We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy.
Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors.
Inventing a fake game of human chess for@huntersonprimeis not only dangerous foolishness & caricature.
It also welcomes future deniers.
Fictional is a bad excuse.
Respect accuracy and memory of the victims.
Sadly, not many of them come for a consultation.
Of course, For filmmakers, writers, journalists, artists…
Sadly, not many of them come for a consultation.
‘Fictional’ is a bad excuse.
Respect accuracy and memory of the victims.
Here we absolutely disagree.
This is disrespectful and dangerous.
I simply did not want to depict those specific, real acts of trauma.
I saw vestiges of the nightmarish world she had survived.
It was an experience that forever altered the course of my life.
While Hunters is a dramatic narrative series, with largely fictional characters, it isinspiredby true events.
But it is not documentary.
And it was never purported to be.
202,499 is the highest recorded number given to a prisoner at Auschwitz.
It is the thing I go to sleep thinking about and the thing I wake up working to honor.
In speaking to the chess match scene specifically… this is a fictionalized event.
Why did I feel this scene was important to script and place in series?
I simply did not want to depict those specific, real acts of trauma.
I believe we are very much on the same side and working toward the same goals.
And I hope we can continue a dialogue on how to achieve those goals.
