Socorro Nobre (1995)

  • NR
  • 11/08/1995 (BR)
  • Documentary
  • 23m

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.

Walter Salles

Director, Writer

Cast

Franz Krajcberg's headshot

Franz Krajcberg

Self
Socorro Nobre's headshot

Socorro Nobre

Self
Maria de Lourdes Lima's headshot

Maria de Lourdes Lima

Self
Maria José Santana's headshot

Maria José Santana

Self
Renalice Santos Borges's headshot

Renalice Santos Borges

Self
Edith Alves da Cruz's headshot

Edith Alves da Cruz

Self
Isabel Cristina's headshot

Isabel Cristina

Self

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