The Letter

Overview

A remote village in the Northwest of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting, no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted. The landscapes and buildings are not so much inhabited as lightly entwined and then passed through by their anonymous residents, like some creeping mist. Phantoms half stuck, half undone in a phantom world—lost persons from a lost society?

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 26, 2013

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Netherlands

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Cinematography

Pavel Kostomarov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2618216