Four women of different nationalities and backgrounds struggle to find their own way to survive and maintain their humanity in a Nazi concentration camp where they are incarcerated.
Synopsis
1945, Ravensbrück. One hundred thousand women from 42 different nationalities coexist in the only all-women concentration camp in Nazi Germany. This is the story of four of them: Gertrud, a German petty criminal who is promoted to Kapo, who slips further and further into brutality in order to stay alive and find her son outside the camp. Leah, a Jewish medicine student, survives using her individual value as a nurse, staying in the shadows and expressing herself through hidden art. Aga is a “rabbit” – one of the Polish women who suffer sadistic experiments by the SS doctors. Despite being one of the most vulnerable ones, she finds the courage to stand up. And finally, Mar – a Catalan communist committed to resistance and sabotage who has to adopt her friend’s daughters after she is murdered in the camp, finding herself torn between responsibilities. How to retain humanity in this extreme situation is the question that each of them will answer in their own way.
Year
In Production
Production Country
Spain
Production Company
Alhena Production
Subject Region
Germany
Director
Anne Zohra Berrached (Germany)
Stina Werenfels (Switzerland)
Anna Jadowska (Poland)
Neus Ballús (Spain
Producer
Alhena Production (Spain)
Hesse Films (Switzerland)
Krakow Film Studio (Poland)
Bon Voyage (Germany)
Writer
Mirjam Ziegler (Germany)
Eva Pauné (Spain)
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