Country: Senegal
Year: 2002
Duration: 61'
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.
Biography
film director
Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1930. After studying law at Yale, he became a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and worked as a researcher at the University of Boston, Brandeis and Harvard. In 1967 he decided to dedicate himself to cinema and started making independent documentaries. In 1970 he founded Zipporah Films, which distributes his work. He continued his academic research, has obtained numerous recognitions and has published books and magazine articles. Wiseman is also active in theater.
FILMOGRAFIA
Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1969), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Basic Training (1971), Essene (1972), Jouvenil Court (1973), Primate (1974), Welfare (1975), Meat (1976), Canal Zone (1977), Sinai Field Mission (1978), Manoeuvre (1979), Model (1980), Seraphita's Diary (1980), The Store (1983), Racetrack (1985), Blind (1986), Multi-Handicapped (1986), Adjustment and Work (1986), Deaf (1986), Missile (1986), Central Park (1989), Near Death (1989), Aspen (1991), Zoo (1993), Hight School II (1994), Ballet (1995), La Comédie Français ou l'Amour Joué (1996), Public Housing (1997), Belfast, Maine (1999), Domestic Violence (2001), Domestic Violence II
Cast
& Credits
Director: Frederick Wiseman.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Frederick Wiseman, da un romanzo di Vassilij Grossman.
Director of photography: Yorgos Arvanitis.
Art director: Marc Marmier.
Editor: Frederick Wiseman, Luc Barnier.
Cast and characters: Cathrine Samie (Anna Semionovna).
Produttori: Frederick Wiseman, Pierre-Olivier Bardet.
Production company: Ideale Audience, 6, rue de l'Agent Bailly, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53201400, fax +33-1-53201401, e-mail: ideale@ideale-audience.fr.
Coproduzione e vendita all'estero (solo USA e Canada): Zipporah Films, 1 Richdale Avenue, #4, 02140 Cambridge, USA, tel. +1-617-5763603, fax +1-617-8648006, e-mail info@zipporah.com.
Vendita all'estero (resto del mondo): Films Distribution, 6, rue de l'Ecole de MÉdecine, 75006 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53103399, fax +33-1-53103398, e-mail: info@filmsdistribution.com.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Frederick Wiseman, da un romanzo di Vassilij Grossman.
Director of photography: Yorgos Arvanitis.
Art director: Marc Marmier.
Editor: Frederick Wiseman, Luc Barnier.
Cast and characters: Cathrine Samie (Anna Semionovna).
Produttori: Frederick Wiseman, Pierre-Olivier Bardet.
Production company: Ideale Audience, 6, rue de l'Agent Bailly, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53201400, fax +33-1-53201401, e-mail: ideale@ideale-audience.fr.
Coproduzione e vendita all'estero (solo USA e Canada): Zipporah Films, 1 Richdale Avenue, #4, 02140 Cambridge, USA, tel. +1-617-5763603, fax +1-617-8648006, e-mail info@zipporah.com.
Vendita all'estero (resto del mondo): Films Distribution, 6, rue de l'Ecole de MÉdecine, 75006 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53103399, fax +33-1-53103398, e-mail: info@filmsdistribution.com.