It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA…

During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.

How to make an entertaining film accompanied with ice-touch of death? Why colour a tragic destiny with a rosy light? Why to be cheerful hiding a scream of horror? How to talk about the Holocaust without showing the expected scenes? How to keep the author’s emotion and answer rationally a thousand questions and hundred dilemmas? How to avoid a melodrama with a story, in which people dance and sing? How to imitate unobtrusively style of the films in 1930s and 40s in such a way that a contemporary spectator receives it unconsciously as authentical? How to sacrifice a recognizable selective orientation of the world festivals in favour of a classical form? Yes, all this was worth it, in order to tell the truth about the forgotten destiny of neither a child, nor a young lady.