Alissa Simon Film CriticVeteran 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 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.
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