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The Last Letter

Francia / EE.UU.| Documental| 2002|61 minutos
Título original: La dernière lettre
Dirección: Frederick Wiseman
Intérpretes: Catherine Samie
Idioma: Francés Subtítulos: Inglés
Formato: DVD-R
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317341/

THE LAST LETTER (LA DERNIÈRE LETTRE) is based on a chapter of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate. It is 1941. A Ukrainian ghetto has fallen to the Nazis and all of its Jewish residents are slated to be murdered. In the midst of the impending horror, the town’s physician, a woman named Anna Semionova, dictates one final letter to her son, who is safe outside of enemy lines. The letter, with its detailed observations of daily life in a ghetto, reveals the fear, courage, frailty, compassion and dignity of this woman as she reviews her life and faces her death.