A hugely adorned Vietnam War veteran, in 1975 he initiated Operation Baby Lift, which evacuated 2.800 oiphaned Vietnamese chil- dren. To get into the proper mood in advance of filming commenced, both equally Dafoe and Gainsbourg ended up proven Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror from 1975. Dafoe was also shown Von Trier's personal 1998 film The Idiots, and Gainsbourg The Night Porter to review Charlotte Rampling's character.