SYNOPSIS

Director: Magnus Gertten

Screenwriter: Magnus Gertten

Cast: None

Producer: Ove Rishoig Jensen

Cinematographer: Caroline Troedsson

Genre: Feature Documentary

Length: 93min

Year: 2022

Dialogue: Swedish, French, English, Spanish

Subtitles: English

Region: Sweden, Norway

Production Company: Auto Images

介绍：

Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family.

Now Nelly’s grand child, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.

导演介绍：

Magnus Gertten is an award-winning director and producer from Malmö, Sweden. Since 1998, he has directed more than 15 documentaries for SVT and international TV channels. His films have been screened by broadcasters and at film festivals in more than 60 countries. Magnus Gertten is co-owner of Auto Images and the creative centre of the company. Gertten directs a majority of the productions made at Auto Images. He also serves as narrative consultant and adviser on other Auto Images films and on the minor coproductions the company is involved in. Magnus Gertten’s latest works include feature length documentaries Only the Devil Lives without Hope, Becoming Zlatan and Every Face Has a Name. Only the Devil Lives without Hope premiered at cph:dox, HotDocs and EIDF Korea and travelled world-wide to festivals and on television. Becoming Zlatan, co-directed with his younger brother Fredrik Gertten premiered at the 2015 IDFA festival and has travelled international festivals and was sold for distribution worldwide including a global deal with Netflix.

Every Face Has a Name was co-produced and pre-sold to 11 broadcasters worldwide and has received several international awards, including a FIPRESCI Award. The film was screened at The European Parliament. His film Tusen Bitar / A Thousand Pieces, co-directed with Stefan Berg, has sold over 160.000 tickets in Nordic cinemas. It was the best reviewed film in Sweden among all cinema releases in 2014. His documentary Harbour of Hope had Swedish cinema release and its international festival premiere at Thessaloniki Documentary Film festival in March 2012. Among Magnus’ other films are Rolling Like a Stone (2005) and Long Distance Love (2008). Rolling Like a Stone won the Best Music Documentary Award at the Silverdocs/AFI Festival in 2006. Long Distance Love won Best Documentary at Hamptons International Film Festival in 2009. Long Distance Love focused on Central Asia, just like Only the Devil Lives Without Hope does. Magnus Gertten has a background as TV and radio journalist, including several years as a music journalist. Since 2017 he’s an honorary doctor at the Malmö university.

阐述

The idea for Nelly & Nadine goes all the way back to 2007. That was the year when I started to investigate a historical event in my hometown Malmö, Sweden. During a couple of months at the end of World War II almost 15.000 survivors from the concentration camps in Nazi Germany were rescued to Sweden. In the harbour of Malmö these survivors took their first steps of freedom. One of these days, April 28, 1945, was carefully documented by Swedish news media. Some of the best film photographers were in place to capture haunting images, often in close up, of people who just escaped the horrors of the camps. The archive footage from Malmö is around 40 minutes long and unique in its kind. I became fascinated by the faces in the material, the newly liberated survivors who were standing in the harbour of my hometown. I asked myself: would it be possible to identify these survivors, almost 70 years later? There a long cinematic journey started which led to two different documentaries: Harbour of Hope (2011) which tells the big story about how a Swedish city takes care of the survivors in 1945, and Every Face Has a Name (2015), which is a more conceptual mission to put names to the anonymous faces. These two films, I’m proud to say, have been able to travel the world and collect awards.