Förderer relishes these problem-solving parts of being a cinematographer — merging the real and unreal — which he likens to “thinking like a magician. You have to have that mind-set.”

But every test they do on creative problem-solving shows that when you’re scared, you can’t do it.

It involves a number of factors including, problem-solving, memory, spatial reasoning and motor coordination.

The result is as much about problem-solving as it is about cooking, with plenty of commentary from Miller to illuminate the historical context.

And yet Benesch’s character, a German interpreter named Marianne, is more than a practical employee problem-solving in the control room — she represents a country whose dream of international reemergence after World War II has been shattered.