The era of Holocaust period pieces is over, according to Hagai Levi, director of Scenes From a Marriage and The Affair. Levi’s new series, Etty, which is based on the diaries of Etty Hillesum, places a modern spin on a Holocaust story by setting it in a “contemporary” Amsterdam, although the show is not rooted in a specific time period. Audiences will notice immediately that the clothes, buildings and technology seem far beyond what they were in the 1940s (the main character spends much of her time in jeans) and this is exactly the atmosphere Levi was going for. “The...
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