Socorro Nobre
Nov 08 1995
•0h 23m
•Documentary
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.
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Franz Krajcberg
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Socorro Nobre
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Maria de Lourdes Lima
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Maria José Santana
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