Nils Bergendal was not an established filmmaker and had no experience as an animator when he began his short film “German Shepherd” — which makes the tale about a Jewish man confronting his preconceptions about German people all the more extraordinary. Around six years prior, Bergendal was having lunch with an old friend, David Paul, who had an ongoing obsession with Germans and Germany. “I just happened to have a recorder with me, and we had some hours to kill before I was taking my flight back to Sweden,” Bergendal said. “I was listening to the tape, and I just realized that — wow.
- 8/7/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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