knows she’s typically a chatty person. That wasn’t always the case on the set of her new tragicomic movie, “Usually I have too many words, but I just didn’t have any,” she told Yahoo Entertainment about filming on location at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. “Being there .
.. you have a temporary experience of what the people there had, which is a complete removal of your voice.
“There’s a town around there. Life continues because life continues for people everywhere, but it’s eerie,” she added. In Dunham stars as Ruth, a recently divorced journalist who travels from New York to Poland with her Holocaust survivor father, Edek (Stephen Fry).
Edek jovially sabotages their planned tour of the village that he was born in and forced by Nazis to leave by wandering off, flirting with women and singing at bars. He questions why Ruth wants to revisit the loss of his home and his suffering at Auschwitz in the first place. Dunham is best known for the projects she has written and starred in herself, like the ever-popular HBO series Though she didn’t write her starring role and recent discovery that one of her relatives survived the Holocaust deepened her own connection to the film.
Dunham said her character Ruth, determined to confront trauma endured by her family members while struggling with separate personal issues, is “deeply relatable.” “Hopefully in [portraying Ruth] I can shed light on the concept of transgenerational trauma that would welcom.