Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to well-received Holocaust documentary Love It Was Not, which will play at Hot Docs this month.
Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s film charts the remarkable and harrowing true love story between a prisoner and a Nazi. Beautiful and full of life, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a teenager (one of the first 1000 transported to the concentration camp), and soon finds unlikely solace under the protection of Franz Wunsch, a barely older SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking execution if caught, they went on with their forbidden romantic relationship for two and a half years until the war ended and the camp was liberated.
Thirty years later, a letter arrives from Wunsch’s wife asking Helena to “return the favor” — testify on Wunsch’s behalf at his war crimes trial. Faced with an impossible decision,...
Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s film charts the remarkable and harrowing true love story between a prisoner and a Nazi. Beautiful and full of life, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a teenager (one of the first 1000 transported to the concentration camp), and soon finds unlikely solace under the protection of Franz Wunsch, a barely older SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking execution if caught, they went on with their forbidden romantic relationship for two and a half years until the war ended and the camp was liberated.
Thirty years later, a letter arrives from Wunsch’s wife asking Helena to “return the favor” — testify on Wunsch’s behalf at his war crimes trial. Faced with an impossible decision,...
- 4/12/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
New appointments and sales of titles including Toto and His Sisters.
Early at this year’s International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa), Austrian doc powerhouse Autlook has announced both a shake up of its structure and several new deals on its bulging Idfa slate. The details were confirmed to ScreenDaily by Autlook MD Salma Abdalla.
Abdalla announced the appointment of Liselot Verbrugge as sales manager and the promotion of Andrea Hock to head of sales.
Verbrugge will work from Amsterdam overseeing Australia/New Zealand, Asia & Oceania, Mena & Eastern Europe and will develop a strand of kids docs for Autlook.
Verbrugge comes to Autlook having been senior producer at Cinekid for Professionals until last month. Former M-d Peter Jager remains a partner in the company.
Docs for Sale
Autlook has arrived at Idfa with a dozen films screening either in official selection at the festival or available in the Docs For Sale.
One title continuing...
Early at this year’s International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa), Austrian doc powerhouse Autlook has announced both a shake up of its structure and several new deals on its bulging Idfa slate. The details were confirmed to ScreenDaily by Autlook MD Salma Abdalla.
Abdalla announced the appointment of Liselot Verbrugge as sales manager and the promotion of Andrea Hock to head of sales.
Verbrugge will work from Amsterdam overseeing Australia/New Zealand, Asia & Oceania, Mena & Eastern Europe and will develop a strand of kids docs for Autlook.
Verbrugge comes to Autlook having been senior producer at Cinekid for Professionals until last month. Former M-d Peter Jager remains a partner in the company.
Docs for Sale
Autlook has arrived at Idfa with a dozen films screening either in official selection at the festival or available in the Docs For Sale.
One title continuing...
- 11/20/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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