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Nelly & Nadine (2024)

Nov 27, 2024 Documentary 1h 32m
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One of the greatest love stories never told.

Overview

Nelly and Nadine meet in Ravensbrück concentration camp. They spend the rest of their lives together. Decades later, Nelly’s granddaughter goes in search of clues. A poignant film about a love story and the need for individual and collective remembrance.

Magnus Gertten
Director
Jesper Osmund
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Nadine Hwang
Nadine Hwang

Self (archive footage)
Nelly Mousset-Vos
Nelly Mousset-Vos

Self (archive footage)
Sylvie Bianchi
Sylvie Bianchi

Self
Christian
Christian

Self
Joan Schenkar
Joan Schenkar

Self
Anne Bianchi
Anne Bianchi

Self
José Rafael Lovera
José Rafael Lovera

Self
Maria Alexandra Lovera
Maria Alexandra Lovera

Self
Irene Krausz-Fainman
Irene Krausz-Fainman

Self

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Nelly & Nadine | Trailer | Berlinale 2022
Nelly & Nadine | Trailer | Berlinale 2022
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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on August 19, 2024

At the very start of this documentary, we are shown a photograph of a woman staring into the camera. It's fairly unlikely she knew it was pointing at the group in which she was standing, but it was taken as the Ravensbrück concentration camp was being liberated by the Swiss Red Cross in 1945. She is quickly identified as Nadine Hwang and now director Magnus Gertten tries to piece together her story. For that, he is fortunate. She kept a series of diaries and when it falls to her grand-daughter to finally read them - with quite a degree of emotion-laden trepidation - we discover that before the war she was in a loving relationship with Nelly Mousset Vos. With the aid of photographs and the sometimes quite harrowing narration from her text, we trace the lives of these two women both before ...

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