What Is It Like to Portray Nazi Heinrich Himmler? Martin Müller Shares His Experience on ‘I Is Another’

Portraying one of the leading Nazis and architects of the Holocaust comes with all sorts of challenges, responsibilities and concerns for actors. Just ask Martin Müller, the German actor who plays SS leader Heinrich Himmler, known as the chief implementer of the Nazis’ so-called “Final Solution,” in writer-director Felix Randau‘s I Is Another (Ich Ist ein Anderer), which world premieres on Friday, Aug. 7 in the Piazza Grande program of the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. Set in 1952, the film stars Claes Bang as Felix Kersten, the former massage therapist to Himmler, who gets ambushed by journalist Hedda…