Veteran Swedish documentary maker Magnus Gertten’s “Nelly & Nadine,” a love story that begins in the hell of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, world-premieres in Berlin. Rise and Shine World …
,” a love story that begins in the hell of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, world-premieres in Berlin. Rise and Shine World Sales reps this Panorama title
“Nelly & Nadine” is the third film you have made inspired by archival footage showing survivors from German concentration camps arriving in Malmö, Sweden. What motivated you to start this project? It all started out of curiosity. I came across this archive film, a newsreel, which was shot in my hometown Malmö in April 1945. I never intended to make a docu about this historic event, but I became fascinated by the cinematic quality of the archive film and the anonymous faces of camp survivors taking their first steps in freedom. I asked myself, is it possible to identify them? This was in 2007.
Nadine appears in the original footage. How did you identify her and discover her fascinating history with Nelly? Nadine is mentioned briefly in the two first films. She was easy to identify, as the newspapers wrote about her arrival and published photos of her. We were also able to find out about her connections to Natalie Clifford Barney’s famous literary salon in Paris during the 1930s. But it took us years before we realized what happened to her after the war. The final pieces of information came during a screening of “Every Face Has a Name” in Paris, in November 2016.
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