presented by Michael Stütz, head of the Panorama section. In the middle of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the voice of the opera singer Nelly sounds. Over a period of one year, Magnus Gertten accompanies the granddaughter on her careful search and follows the traces of the untold that can be found in the various sources. A poignant film about deep lesbian love and the need for personal and collective memory.
In the middle of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the voice of the opera singer Nelly sounds. It's Christmas in 1944 when Nelly and Nadine meet for the first time. After the liberation, they find each other again and stay together for the rest of their lives. Today, Nelly's granddaughter Sylvie faces her grandmother's legacy, which is locked in a box. In photographs, Super 8 and audio recordings, as well as in poetic and harrowing diary entries, the granddaughter encounters not only her grandmother's memories of the concentration camp, but also evidence of life together with Nadine - a couple relationship that the family never named as such became. "Nothing is real until it's socially expressed," says historian Joan Schenkar in an interview with Sylvie. Over a period of one year, Magnus Gertten accompanies the granddaughter on her careful search and follows the traces of the untold that can be found in the various sources. A poignant film about deep lesbian love and the need for personal and collective memory.
Nelly & Nadine | Yorck Kinos Berlin