But things didn t work out that way in Asia. Everywhere else in the world that I have shown the film, the reactions of the audience and the critics have been excellent. I simply have a different understanding of history. Nobody anywhere in the world still knows what Stalingrad means. It s only in Germany that the wounds of the past appear not to have healed yet.
Shadows fascinate people everywhere in the world.
They are so wonderfully ambiguous they are part of the physical world, without being material. Shocked by the epidemics among livestock, more and more consumers are opting for pseudo-meat. The business with vegetarian chicken nuggets and imitation veal cutlets is booming. Food designers are working on vegetable-based artificial meat, which is scarcely distinguishable any more from the animal original. They intend to banish meat from fast food and processed foods and replace it by NPF, novel protein foods , an artificial form of meat based on vegetable protein.