Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Kingsley reflects on Shoah-themed roles


In the opening scene of the 1989 autobiographical film Murderers Among Us, Simon Wiesenthal staggers to the ground, clutching sketches of the atrocities he witnessed inside the newly liberated Mauthausen concentration camp.

For Sir Ben Kingsley, the acclaimed British actor born Krishna Pandit Bhanji, playing the famed Jewish Nazi hunter, was both a privilege and a responsibility.

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