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Socorro Nobre

Socorro Nobre

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 1995

Runtime

0h 23m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Socorro Nobre

Production Companies

VideoFilmes

Director

Walter Salles

Description

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.