About performance
This original Slovak play by Schulczovej Valerie and Romana Olekšák is about the fictional meeting between two real people. Legendary host Johnny Carson whose "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" was one of America's most watched talk shows, and controversial LeniRiefenstahl, Adolf Hitler’s filmmaker. It is the 1974, Johnny is at the top of his career and Leni is presenting her first completed project since the defeat of Germany in America – photo’s of Africa – The Last of Nubu. However Johnny knows what interests his viewers more than art. Leni’s past becomes a major issue that overshadows her budding relationship with her assistant Horst, some forty years younger than her. Johnny reveals Leni’s personal attitude towards fascism and the holocaust. He wishes to find out just how much of a feeling of guilt she has. The thickening talkshow atmosphere further inflames German viewer Bertha. Her planned participation in the shoot only serves to open up further questions. What is responsibility does the artist bear for their work? What is the boundary between ministering ideology and active participation in the building of a regime and artistic creation? Is it possible to bear responsibility for the period in which we create? Johnny Carson wants to learn as much as possible and is not afraid to touch even the most personal topics. This unusual life story of one of the best filmmakers in the world who shined through on-demand movies for the Third Reich.
