The record must indicate the dates a director started and stopped holding office.

"The director liked our style, and soon word spread and directors started asking for us," he adds.

But it's easy to understand why the director starts to cry when talking about it.

Even before he completed the film, the director was starting to receive calls from journalists raising the question.

Some directors become jaded or start repeating themselves after even a couple of decades.

Frustrated by older Germans' refusal to talk about the past, the director started mocking them on camera.

The director, a first class petty officer, stepped forward and started the countdown.

And all these really great directors - for example, Visconti - started using it.

After that, the directors also started to put their name on the posters.

Then directors and producers started a search for new actors to replace him.