Lena Dunham on Her ‘Incredibly Resonant’ Holocaust Drama ‘Treasure’ and Recent ‘Girls’ Renaissance: ‘Not Something I Expected’
variety.comEllise Shafer When Lena Dunham first read the script for Julia von Heinz’s “Treasure,” it hit home. The “Girls” creator’s grandmother had just died at 96, and Dunham found herself thinking a lot about her heritage. “Treasure,” based on the 1999 novel “Too Many Men” by Lily Brett, follows Ruth (Dunham), a journalist who travels to Poland with her Holocaust survivor father (Stephen Fry) to confront their family’s tragic past.
Not only did Dunham agree to star in the film, but her production company, Good Thing Going, signed on as well. Both Dunham and her producing partner, Michael P.
Cohen, are Jewish and found the story “incredibly resonant for both of our families,” Dunham tells Variety at Berlin Film Festival, where “Treasure” debuts on Saturday night. “We both looked at each other after we read the script and went like, ‘This is something we’re going to be proud to tell our children that we made.
This is something we would be proud to tell our grandparents,'” Dunham says. “Michael’s grandmother already watched it, and I’m like, ‘If Nan liked it, that’s enough for me.’ She gave a raving text review and I was like, ‘Nan can text?'” “‘Girls’ might not have been for Nan,” Cohen interjects as Dunham laughs.
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