LOVE IT WAS NOT
by Maya Sarfaty
synopsis
A tragic love story between a prisoner and her captor. Flamboyant and full of life, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman, and soon finds unlikely solace under the tutelage of Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking a certain execution if caught, their forbidden relationship went on until her miraculous liberation. But when a letter arrives from Wunsch's wife, thirty years later, begging Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf, she's faced with an impossible decision: will she help the man who brutalised so many lives, but saved hers, along with some of the people closest to her?
international title: | Love It Was Not |
original title: | Ahava Zot Lo Hayta |
country: | Israel, Austria |
sales agent: | Cinephil |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Maya Sarfaty |
film run: | 86' |
screenplay: | Maya Sarfaty |
cinematography by: | Ziv Berkovich, Itay Gross |
film editing: | Sharon Yaish |
music: | Paul Gallister |
producer: | Kurt Langbein, Nir Sa’ar |
production: | Langbein & Partner Media, Yes Docu (IL) |