thomas finkel man could see a guaranteed payoff of one million euros it's not going down well is it. it's not going down well in the german media and if you talk to people here most understand how people working for. especially people who are going to lose their jobs must feel right now when they hear how well paid the c.e.o. who is going out of this affair but i have to say not many people here are very surprised already long before the insolvency of. when. this ex manager of lufthansa got the job as c.e.o. at evelyn it was clear for everyone here that he only got that job to make sure that you know the takeover of air berlin towns are can happen smoothly and that he would only accept this job with a very good contract and with a secure payment that's the system that's how it works it really doesn't help to complain about it or winge about it now if you want to change the system people here say you have to go see your m.p. a change the law. well the tax jumping to a record high today what's keeping it happy. well relatively good earnings reports for example from i.b.m. the large com

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. >> bill: the author, you mentioned david finkel, he talked about the after war.rican sniper was so powerful and strong and you look at the characters in that film. this has a different texture to it. it has a different rhythm and different emotional feel. what was the challenge for you as a filmmaker in order to tell that story? >> to really make it personal and the cost of war personal with these people, to bring the war home inside of these actors and these characters and into their hearts and into their heads and to make that resonate here on the homeland was the challenge. >> bill: does this advance the issue and the challenge that so many are up against? >> i hope so. i hope it starts a conversation. i hope that people see this movie and they go approach the veteran in their life and say i saw this movie. i had no idea. i wonder if you had any stories like this. tell me about your friends. tell me about your experiences. too often we come up and say thank you for your service. beginning and end of a conversation. the end of a conversation. it doesn't start a