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Postcards from Leningrad (2007)

Postcards from Leningrad poster
Original title
Postales de Leningrado
Directed by
Mariana Rondón
Genre
drama film
Country
Venezuela
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
4.2 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Children grow up surrounded by guerrilla fighters in 1960s Venezuela. The film shows their daily life and how they make sense of the adult world around them.

nostalgicintrospectivebittersweetchild's perspectivehistorically-mindedquietpoignantfamily-focused

What happens

Postcards from Leningrad (Spanish: Postales de Leningrado) is a 2007 Venezuelan drama film written and directed by Mariana Rondón. It is a drama about children growing up among guerrilla groups in the 1960s in Venezuela. It was Venezuela's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film of the 80th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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