Host Marco Werman tells us about the Academy Award winner for best original screenplay, Kenneth Branagh, for “Belfast.” Branagh’s movie about the city he grew up in as a child — and which he had to leave with his family, due to the violence of The Troubles — is both a personal memoir and a recount of history. But it’s really just a story about home, as Branagh has explained, which makes it a relevant one for many people around the world today.
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