Steve McQueen defends four-hour runtime of new Nazi documentary: ‘An hour and a half wouldn’t do it a service’

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Director Steve McQueen has defended the scale of his new four-hour documentary on the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam.

The A24-backed documentary, titled Occupied City, is based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945 by Dutch filmmaker and historian Bianca Stigter, who is also McQueen’s wife.