Indeed, in the Q&A that followed the screening of In the Fade that I attended at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Akin went so far as to say that he wanted Katja to be a blonde - haired,
blue - eyed
avatar of himself; he wanted to cast a woman who would be a Nazi's ideal as the sworn enemy of Nazis, and to inject his own anger about the way he is treated as an «other» by neo-Nazis and their ilk into the
character of an Aryan - looking woman who would otherwise be embraced by them.