Alan Parker - director
Video - Berlin Film Festival
Interview with the director and the cast during the press conference for the presentation of the film The Life of David Gale at Berlin Film Festival
by Federico Greco
The Life of David Gale [+see also:
trailer
film profile] is the story about a professor, who opposes capital punishment, and who is falsely accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
The film was presented at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival, where during the press conference the director Alan Parker and the actors were interviewed.
Laura Linney and Kevin Spacey both explain that although having firm opinions about the subject, they hope the audience will follow the characters instead of concentrating on their political views.
The director Alan Parker explains that in order to make the film, through which he delivers a strong anti-capital punishment message, he researched on facts and statistics. He followed in fact individual groups, with the possibility of listening to opposing views.