The Last Letter

Frederick Wiseman

The Last Letter follows a mother locked away in a Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941 as she revisits her life in a last letter to her son.

DIRECTOR
Frederick Wiseman
YEAR
2002
COUNTRY
U.S.
RUNTIME
62 minutes

The Last Letter follows a mother who was locked away in a Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941 as she revisits her life in a last letter to her son, who was safe outside 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.

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