Nelly & Nadine

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Nelly & Nadine

2022

1h 33m

Documentary

Biography

History

LGBTQ+

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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. For many years their love 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 story.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

02/07/2023

3/5

The film gives us a precious glimpse into LGBTQ+ life in the postwar period.

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Jude Dry

IndieWire

12/19/2022

B+

Bolstered by gorgeous archival Super 8 footage of queer life in the 1950s, “Nelly & Nadine” offers a tender romance with a surprisingly vibrant slice of queer history.

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Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

12/15/2022

“Nelly & Nadine” isn’t just a war movie but also a touching family history, an unforgettable romance and, above all, a magnificent tribute to the power of persistence in art, life and love.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

06/12/2023

This portrait of two highly accomplished women is gracefully crafted, offering a poignant glimpse not only of a hidden past but a reminder of just how many remarkable life stories get buried by time and circumstance.

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Ayelet Dekel

Midnight East

04/06/2023

Nelly and Nadine’s story is a magnificent romance, as thrilling as any fiction, and all the more compelling in its truth. Omnia vincit amor.

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Alex Billington

FirstShowing.net

12/30/2022

8/10

It's empowering because it proves that love can defeat any and everything, and love continues to influence and empower us forever and ever. No matter how many years after it was first cultivated.

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milagros b

12/20/2022

Very good. Poignant moments captured in home movies. Well curated production of an incredibly bonding of two deep thinkers under horrendous circumstances and survival with their senses and bodies intact. Quite a tour d force

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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. For many years their love 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 story.

Director: Magnus Gertten
Producer: Ove Rishøj Jensen
Screenwriter: Magnus Gertten, Jesper Osmund
Distributor: Wolfe Releasing
Production Co: Canvas, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie, UpNorth Film, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Sveriges Television (SVT)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, LGBTQ+
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 16, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 33m