In conversation with Edward Berger | Ballad Of A Small Player, Conclave, and internet passwords

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Oscar-winner Edward Berger joins us for a very special episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew. The pair meet to chat about Edward's new release, Ballad Of A Small Player, starring Colin Farrell. And the chat also goes back to Edward's early years making films for German television, through to finding himself on the awards circuit with All Quiet On The Western Front and Conclave. As we'll discuss, not a bad journey for someone who took a huge gamble and turned down a safe job with Ang Lee's company... Ballad Of A Small Player is on Netflix now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.8	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:10.1	Come with me.
0:12.2	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:15.5	And movies. Movies. Movies that had stories.
0:18.4	That the story just sucks a man.
0:20.8	This is just the beginning.
0:23.1	We would be honoured if you would join us.
0:30.2	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:34.8	I am Simon Brew.
0:35.9	As always, it's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:39.0	The aim of the podcast is given away by the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films
0:43.2	and I tend to talk about development stories, marketing stories, release stories, production stories,
0:48.4	all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love,
0:52.4	just that the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes
0:55.0	love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything else.
1:00.5	There are films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not
1:05.5	to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow,
1:12.4	films managed to get made.
1:14.5	Film Stories is also a very proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network, a network of over
1:19.6	50 shows covering films, TV and gaming.
1:22.6	If you do a search for Film Stories Podcast Network, you'll find hopefully a bunch of other shows
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