The Last Letter
2002, NR, 61 min.
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, Starring Catherine Samie.
This one-woman sate show is film in black-and-white by the great documentarian Frederick Wise. The French stage actress Catherine Samie plays a physician interned in a Ukrainian ghetto and delivers a monologue about the incremental horrors of her life.
This article appears in March 19 • 2004.
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