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Love It Was Not

Available screening types

Virtual

In-person

Available until

Jan 01, 2025

Available in

United States of America, Canada

Brought to you by

Greenwich Entertainment

About the film

A young Jewish woman named Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz, where she develops an unlikely romantic relationship with Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer. Thirty years later, a letter arrives from Wunsch's wife asking Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf. Faced with an impossible decision, Helena must choose. Will she help the man who brutalized so many lives but saved hers?

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

1h 23m

Released

2020

Director

Maya Sarfaty

Awards & recognition

DocAviv Film Festival 2020

Winner Best Israeli Film

Romy Gala, Austria

Nominee Best Documentary 2021

What people are saying

“A heartbreaking and dangerous love story during the Holocaust. A masterpiece; amazing. Absorbing and affecting.”

The Times of Israel

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