Nelly & Nadine, dir. Magnus Gertten, 2022, Sweden/Belgium/Norway, 92m., in English, French, Swedish, and Spanish with full English subtitles 💝
Sunday, June 19, 2022, 4:00pm Castro
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Nelly Mousset-Vos (pictured, right) and Nadine Hwang (left) met in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944, both imprisoned for “espionage” against the Nazis. Nelly was part of an organized resistance group; Nadine helped some people escape over the border from occupied France into Spain. They felt an immediate connection in their love of music and drew life-sustaining hope from their friendship. Nadine was then transferred to Mauthausen, but after liberation they were able to reunite, eventually moving together to Venezuela.
Nelly & Nadine is the amazing record of their relationship, including photos, diaries, letters, and home movies, brought back to the surface by Nelly’s granddaughter Sylvie. It’s a story of love in circumstances of existential despair, and of building a life together, quietly but authentically being themselves in the 1950s and 60s. Sylvie visited Nelly and Nadine when she was a child, but didn’t question why these two women shared a house. In retrospect it’s obvious, but to a child they seemed to be just very good friends.
Only a very few survivors of Nazi concentration camps are still with us, so it is vital that we keep the memory of those horrors, and the humanity that survived through them, alive so that chapter of history doesn’t repeat itself. This documentary is a testament to love in the worst of times. Must see.
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