Letters from War (2016)

Original title

Cartas da Guerra

Directed by

Ivo Ferreira

Genre

drama film

Country

Portugal

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

12

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young doctor serves in the Portuguese colonial war in Angola during the early 1970s. He writes letters to his pregnant wife back home about his daily life and the grim reality around him.

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What happens

Letters from War (Portuguese: Cartas da Guerra) is a 2016 Portuguese drama film directed by Ivo M. Ferreira and based on the letter collection D'este viver aqui neste papel descripto by António Lobo Antunes. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. It was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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