Moving from documentary to the narrative format, Oppenheimer's urge to make a musical about the end of the world was rooted in his observational sensibilities. To hear Oppenheimer tell it ...
Deep in a bunker, a family keeps on singing in the year's most nightmarish piece of future shock. Director Joshua Oppenheimer had never made a musical before.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer, previously a documentarian who has chronicled dark acts of self-delusion, shifts to a postapocalyptic musical with similar themes.