Magnus Gertten

Nelly and Nadine

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Edition 2022 — Movies
Official Section Panorama
Festival

Nelly and Nadine

Magnus Gertten

2022

93 min.

Sweden, Norway, Belgium and Denmark

Swedish, English, French and Spanish

Subtitles: Catalan and English

Nelly and Nadine fell in love on Christmas night 1944 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. An exceptional and inspiring love story.

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Direction

Magnus Gertten

Sound

Are Åberg, Krister Johnson, Jørgen Meyer, Audun Røstad, Katarzyna Maria Wieczorek

Production

Ove Rishøj Jensen

Co-production

Bram Crols & Mark Daems, Associate Directors, Belgium. Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch, Christian Aune Falch & Torstein Parelius, UpNorth Film, Norway

Graphic design

Annelies Vaes

Voice of Nelly

Anne Coesens

Voice of Nadine

Bwanga Pilipili

Head of research

Sebastian Claesson

Composer

Marthe Belsvik Stavrum

Datasheet

Direction

Magnus Gertten

Sound

Are Åberg, Krister Johnson, Jørgen Meyer, Audun Røstad, Katarzyna Maria Wieczorek

Production

Ove Rishøj Jensen

Co-production

Bram Crols & Mark Daems, Associate Directors, Belgium. Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch, Christian Aune Falch & Torstein Parelius, UpNorth Film, Norway

Graphic design

Annelies Vaes

Voice of Nelly

Anne Coesens

Voice of Nadine

Bwanga Pilipili

Head of research

Sebastian Claesson

Composer

Marthe Belsvik Stavrum

Synopsis

The powerful voice of the opera singer Nelly resounds in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. On Christmas Eve 1944, Nelly meets Nadine and they fall in love. Their secret love would live on after their liberation from the Nazi terror camps. Together they shared an exciting life that had been forgotten until now. Nelly's granddaughter decides to open the box containing her grandmother's most intimate archives. An exceptional love story between two women who were ahead of their time. Their courage to overcome impossible obstacles is an inspiring example that deserves to be remembered.

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Magnus Gertten

Director

Magnus Gertten is an award-winning director and producer from Malmö, Sweden. Since 1998, he has dire...

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Awards and festivals

Berlinale

Germany, 2022

Tempo Stockholm

Sweden, 2022

Thessaloniki Doc

Greece, 2022

CPH:DOX

Denmark, 2022

Magnus Gertten

Nelly and Nadine

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"Extraordinary, historical and personal (...) Chronicle of a beautiful couple, gloriously revealed so that the world contemplates them and, most likely, adores them".
— Jan Lumholdt, Cineuropa

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