Letters From War

Portuguese romantic drama set in occupied Angola and based on letters from António Lobo Antunes's epistolary novel D'este Viver Aqui neste Papel Descripto.

"This war turns us all into insects struggling for survival" writes young military doctor António to his pregnant wife in Portugal in 1971. He has been posted to Angola to serve in the Portuguese Colonial War. His words are full of pain but also tenderness, filled with a deep longing for his beloved wife and their unborn child. But, increasingly, war rears its ugly head, and his letters home also become spiritual missives from a doomed world.

"Based on letters written by António Lobo Antunes and published in 2005 as ‘This life here described on this piece of paper’, Ivo M. Ferreira has created a parable in which reality and imagination merge." (Berlin International Film Festival)

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