 Corinna Harfouch (qv) stated that she nearly broke down when  filming the scene in which Magda Goebbels gives her children their  "medicine" to put them to sleep before poisoning them.  Bruno Ganz (qv) felt similarly when he held the girl playing one  of the Goebbels children in his lap as they sang, because he knew  that these children were soon to be murdered by their parents.