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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