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Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story of two women who fall in love on Christmas Eve 1944 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years, their relationship was kept secret. Magnus Gertten’s 2022 documentary Nelly & Nadine, the classic love story of two survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, is also a film about filmmaking. Gertten patiently crafts a fragmented narrative to reflect the trepidation of his main subject.

It reminds me of another recent film, 2022’s Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Sylvie Bianchi is the granddaughter of Nelly Mousset-Vos, a Belgian opera singer who fell in love with a mysterious Chinese citizen, Nadine Hwang, when they met during a performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” on Christmas Eve 1944 in Ravensbrück. In Nelly & Nadine, Nadine, a farmer’s wife in idyllic northern France, embarks on a personal journey in relation to this extraordinary couple. Bianca Stigter’s forensic examination of old footage of a Polish village just before the Holocaust (based on the 2014 book Three Minutes In Poland by musician Glenn Kurtz) uses moving images of people and places as a research tool to examine small pieces of erased history. “Nadine & Nelly” begins with the archive of women refugees liberated by the Red Cross who landed in Malmö, Sweden, on April 28, 1945, Gertten (who has made two other films about women shown in these images, ‘Harbour of Hope’ (2021) and ‘Every Face Has a Name’ (2015)) lets the camera linger on Nadine Hwang’s intriguingly long gaze.

What is she thinking?

How did she get here? And off we go… It’s fair to say there are bumps in the road. Sylvie’s grandmother has left behind a mysterious Pandora’s box of documents. By presenting ‘pieces’ of a story, the film raises as many questions as it answers.

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Gradually, sometimes a little frustratingly, it sets out to answer them, so that in the end I find out what I wanted to know. History will probably take care of the rest, but for the purposes of this film ‘Nelly & Nadine’ is a beautiful story that struck a deep chord with me. The Super 8 film reels are very illuminating, mostly shot by Nadine during the couple’s life in Caracas after the war, adding ‘colour’ and intimacy that a still photo would struggle to convey. There is also powerful prose and poetic verse, entries from Nelly’s diary manuscripts that the couple worked on together after the war with a view to publication (rejected, oddly, perhaps because of the nature of their relationship and the social taboos of the time).

UK viewers can watch it on BBC iPlayer as part of the award-winning “Storyville” documentary series

Pure horror is Nelly’s account of the couple’s first separation “At the top, crowning the mountain, lies the camp, Mauthausen, the antechamber of hell”, the 5 days and 5 nights of the train journey described in harrowing detail along with a still image of the infamous 186-step “Stairs of Death” carved into the stone, up which quarry workers were forced to carry huge slabs of stone to their deaths. There are many other aspects to the film, not least highlighting the journey of discovery undertaken by Sylvie, but “Nelly & Nadine” wraps up well at the end, so Gertten & Co.’s account of the lives of this extraordinary couple is well worth watching.

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