Our image research produced the visual concept for the Swiss part of the shoot. It played on the unscathed face of post-war Switzerland as a counter-image to a Germany in ruins. The contrast was strongest in the landscape; intact Swiss countryside set against the bombed-out Ruhr.

Press: “[…] the careful, loving set design […] brings the post-war years atmospherically to life.” Michael Boldhaus, Cinemusic.de, 1 November 2003, our translation.