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Orlando von Einsiedel at the Oscars: ‘We could hear people shrieking. It was total pandemonium’
White Helmets director Raed Saleh that included a quote from the Koran, which is the group’s motto – ‘To save one life is to save all of humanity.’ And then, I remember saying to the audience, ‘Could everyone here stand up to show that we all care about the war in Syria ending as soon as possible’ – and the whole auditorium stood up. It was spontaneous – I hadn’t planned it.Joanna and I went backstage and the first thing we did was to call our cinematographers, who hadn’t been able to get visas to join us – Fadi Al Halabi, Hassan Kattan and Khaled Khatib – in Istanbul.
