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Socorro Nobre (Brazil, 1996)

Directed by Walter Salles.

Maria do Socorro Nobre encounters an article while in prison about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg (who moved to Brazil after losing his family in the Holocaust) and feels compelled to write him a letter.  Director Walter Salles document their strange and moving correspondence, the letters of which served as the starting point for his next film, Central Station (1998).

Screenwriter: Walter Salles, Franz Krajcberg. Editor: Felipe Lacerda, Walter Salles. Cast: F. Krajcberg, Maria do Socorro Nobre.

35mm, b/w, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 23 min.