But I want to get back to the bases of David Kajganich's fiction... If you're interested there are many books on Hitler and the Occult, also the history channel and the Discovery channel have great documentaries on this theme and Third Reich and the Occult... And much of the thinking was based on these relicts – things from ancient races, measured sculls of the oldest people they can find thinking they were descendants of the gods...

This was quite serious... And, of course, Hitler's favourite composer – Wagner (you knows, his favourite opera was about the gods and the purity of the German race)...
Himmler built a castle [*Wewelsburg], there was a design on the floor of that castle – it was shrine to Nordic gods and German soldiers...

Infamous: An SS badge

Formerly the Prince Bishop's chapel, this hall was intended to be used as a meeting place for the 12 most senior SS officers who were Himmler's 'knights'

It went so far as Goebbels and Himmler were encouraging young people in Germany to have sex on the tombs of the great German warriors so that spirits of the great German warriors go into their babies...
So this was serious for these people... There were psychics involved... And it explains some of the paces that Hitler have made – especially going into Russia and waiting for the winter to attack - that was psychic mumbo-jumbo or, maybe, a psychic who was Jewish and against Hitler – I hope so...

These shots that you have seen of these black and white – very graphic shots – with the light across people's eyes – it's straight out of German Expressionism that fits the film...

The great days of Noir when black and white and light and shadow were used in very dramatic graphic ways, and, of course, it's ideal when you're doing period, because it evokes... [No birds were hurt in the making of this movie]...

I think maybe if you're watching commentary maybe you know the story of the movie, but this the point that will change everyone's life in the film and leads to the "modern day" portion...

I can't say enough about Christian Niculescu who was our production designer, he built this that farm house and the barn in the middle of nowhere, I mean, we were miles away from the town of Buharest (this is the main city of Rumania) and you can see his work here – he manufactured this in short period of time...