Project Detail

Let Me Go

Name: Let Me Go
Director: Polly Steele
Genre: Woman Director, Drama
Released: 2017
Duration: 104 mins

Synopsis

Based on the true-life story of Helga Schneider who was abandoned by her mother in 1941 when she was only four years old. Helga’s mother had gone to join the Nazi SS where she underwent special training to qualify as a concentration camp guard in Auschwitz. The film is set in the year 2000, following not only Helga and her mother’s journeys but the next two generations of their family and the suffering they endure following revelations of long held secrets around the horrific events that took place over 70 years ago.

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Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Features
Running time: 104 mins
Format: Digital (Arri Alexa Camera)
Director: Polly Steele
Producer: Lizzie Pickering, David Broder
Executive Producer: Rupert Labrum, Georges Tsitos
Editor: Daniel Goddard
Screenwriter: Polly Steele
Director of Photography: Michael Wood
Production Designer: Alexandra Walker
Sound: Dylan Voigt
Composer: Philip Selway
Principal cast: Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May, Lucy Boynton, Stanley Weber
Film Images: © Andrew Ogilvy
Trailer Password: evofilmsuk

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

In Trust Films

Let Me Go Ltd
Lizzie Pickering

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Sales Company

Evolutionary Films

Diane Shorthouse
Three Mills Studio
Three Mills Lane
London
E3 3DU

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