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Socorro Nobre (1995)

Socorro Nobre (1995)

Documentary
Release Date: 1995, November 8
Directors: Walter Salles
Countries: Brazil
Production: VideoFilmes
Cast: Franz Krajcberg, Socorro Nobre, Maria de Lourdes Lima, Maria José Santana, Renalice Santos Borges, Edith Alves da Cruz, Isabel Cristina

Overview:

When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, while Franz is a tormented artist that lost his family and lived his childhood in a ghetto in Poland but survived the Holocaust. Franz moved to Brazil and recovered life wish living close to nature and inspires Socorro to dream with life again.