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For many years their relationship was kept a secret
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Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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Nelly & Nadine (2022) is a documentary film co-written and directed by Magnus Gertten.
After the German defeat, a boatload of women who had survived the concentration camps were brought to Sweden
Someone filmed the event, and director Gertten has previously identified two people in the film and made movies about them.
They were separated, but both survived
This is the third movie, and it involves two women–Nelly Mousset Vos and Nadine Hwang.The two women met and fell in love in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
We saw this film as part of Rochester's great ImageOut, the LGBTQ Film Festival
Years later, Nelly's granddaughter contacted director Gertten, who made this meticulous documentary about a lesbian couple who traveled all over the world in order to be together.Nelly & Nadine has a good IMDb rating of I thought it was an outstanding movie, and rated it 10.