• Documentary

Love, It Was Not

“Love, it was not” is the tragic and unbelievable love story between Helena, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch. It was a forbidden relationship that endangered both their lives daily and lasted for two years. Around thirty years after they parted ways at the gates of Auschwitz, they see each other again in a Viennese court room – Helena as witness, Franz as the defendant.

Data

Category
Documentary
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
DCP, 90 Min
Release
23.10.2020
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
1.944
Funding Film Institute
74.457 €
Share of Austrian production costs
36 %
Share of total production costs
14 %
Television investment
40.000 €
Co-production

Pagoda Productions (IL, 60%)

International funding

Mifal Hapayis Council for Culture and Art, Joshua Rabinovich Foundation, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

DVD Release
23.04.2021
Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Israel, Poland, Slovakia, Austria
Shooting time
October 2017 - March 2018
Days of shooting
36
Completion
Winter 2018/2019
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
Production
LOOKS Vienna Media GmbH
Producer Austria
Kurt Langbein
Director
Maya Sarfaty
Script-concept
Maya Sarfaty
DOP
Ziv Berkovich
Protagonists
Helena Citron, Rosa Citron, Franz Wunsch, Miki Marin, Israel Tahori, Bill Ben Ziman
Production manager
Katharina Bernard
German Title
Liebe war es nie
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), YES Docu (IL)

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