NELLY & NADINE

37^ Lovers Film Festival
REAL LOVERS

NELLY & NADINE

by Magnus Gertten
Country: Sweden
Year: 2022
Duration: 92


For many years their story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly's grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine's unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable love story. Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück 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.

Biography

film director

Magnus Gertten

Magnus Gertten is an international award-winning Swedish director and producer. Since 1998, he has directed more than 15 documentaries for SVT and worldwide television channels. Among the director's works we can mention the documentaries Rolling Like a Stone (2005), Long Distance Love (2008), Becoming Zlatan (2015), Every Face Has a Name (2015), Only the Devil Lives without Hope (2020).