Hoppets Hamn

Hoppets HamnHafen der Hoffnung / Harbour of Hope

Competition Documentaries, Sweden / Norway / Germany 2011, 76 Min.

“Think of something nice. Think of Sweden,” is what Irene Krausz-Fainman's mother would say to her when she asked about their mutual experiences in Ravensbrück concentration camp. “I don't like speaking about the War.” Her daughter has now caught up on that. Irene Krausz-Fainman is one of almost 30,000 rescued concentration camp inmates who were brought to Malmö by the International Red Cross as of April 1945. Malmö became their first stop in a new life. Director Magnus Gertten has visited three of them, all of whom were children at the time. They recount the ordeals of concentration camp incarceration, and the joy they experienced in Sweden upon their rescue. Old film stock of the “displaced persons'” arrival and accomodation in Malmö's refugee camps complements their shattering accounts. They also marked the starting point for Gertten's research, who showed the archive material from the “Harbour of Hope” to the very people who had been filmed 65 years earlier.

Director Magnus Gertten

Screenplay Magnus Gertten, Jesper Osmund

Website http://harbourofhope.com/press/

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