Filming for the five-part Disney miniseries "Deutsches Haus" has been underway in Poland since August 30th. The film adaptation of the novel tells the story of the young interpreter Eva Bruhns (Katharina Stark, 24). During her work at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial in 1963, she was confronted with the shocking truth of the Holocaust.

"Deutsches Haus" features an ensemble of German-speaking stars. In addition to Stark as Eva Bruhns, Anke Engelke (56) as her mother Edith, Hans-Jochen Wagner (53) as her father Ludwig and Ricarda Seifried (32) as her sister Annegret appear in front of the camera. Other roles include Iris Berben (72), Alice Dwyer (34), Max von der Groeben (30), Henry Hübchen (75), Heiner Lauterbach (69), Aaron Altaras (26), Thomas Prenn (28) and Sabin Tambrea (37).

The author of the bestselling novel of the same name, Annette Hess (55), is also showrunner of the miniseries. In a press release, she spoke of the new task as a "great challenge". One wants to tell "sensitively, but also relentlessly" of a process of the century.

"At the beginning of the 1960s, the unsuspecting Germans, or those who pretended to be unsuspecting, and the world learned comprehensively and radically from the mouths of hundreds of witnesses for the first time about one of the greatest crimes of mankind, which the word Auschwitz describes for all time," says Hess on. "This process marks the first milestone in the process of reappraisal that is ongoing and must continue to this day." With the producer Sabine de Mardt ("Barbarians") she found "the perfect ally for this heart project", explains the showrunner. "We have decided to tell the incomprehensible with tenderness."

Filming will continue until mid-December. Directed by Isa Prahl ("Westwall") and Randa Chahoud ("Deutschland 89"). A release date is not yet known.