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LA DERNIERE LETTRE
Synopsis
Anna Semionovna is a Russian Jewish doctor living in a small town in the Ukraine just captured by the Germans. She writes a last letter to her son safely behind the front lines.Anna Semionovna knows that in a few days, she, amongst the other Jews, will be eliminated by the Germans. The letter recounts some of the major events in her life: her relationship with her son, her love for him, her student life in Paris, her failed marriage.
She describes the cruelty and horror of the Occupation, the reluctance to admit what is happening, the collaboration, indifference and greed of some of her Ukrainian and Russian neighbours, the help and concern of others and the gradual realisation that her Jewish heritage is more important to her than her Russian nationality and communist beliefs.
Frederick WISEMAN
Credits
- Yorgos ARVANITIS - Cinematography
- Luc BARNIER - Film Editor
- Marc MARMIER - Set Designer
- Frederick WISEMAN - Film Editor
- Frederick WISEMAN - Director
- Vassili GROSSMAN - Screenplay
Actors
- Cathrine SAMIE - Anna Semionovna
The Official Selection 2002
Out of Competition
- AND NOW... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
- ARARAT
- CARLO GIULIANI, RAGAZZO
- CIDADE DE DEUS
- DE L'AUTRE CÔTÉ
- DEVDAS
- ETRE ET AVOIR
- FEMME FATALE
- HISTOIRE(S) DE FESTIVAL
- HOLLYWOOD ENDING
- KAGAMI NO ONNATACHI
- LA DERNIERE LETTRE
- MURDER BY NUMBERS
- SEARCHING FOR DEBRA WINGER
- SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON
- STAR WARS - ATTACK OF THE CLONES
- THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE