Maggie Smith is set to play Brunhilde Pomsel, the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels, in a film adaptation of the one-woman West End play “A German Life”.
Smith will reprise the role she played to great acclaim at The Bridge Theatre, while leading stage and opera helmer Jonathan Kent will make his feature film debut on the project.
Screenwriter-playwright Christopher Hampton (“Atonement,” “Dangerous Liaisons”) adapted the script with the story based on a series of interviews that Pomsel gave when she was 103.
Hampton’s approach sets it up as a woman in a retirement home in 2013 talking about her life with occasional looks out the window and seeing flashbacks. For the most part it’s just her talking about her memories over the course of a day.
Source: Variety