Letter to Anna premieres in Berlin
Eric Bergkraut’s Swiss documentary Letter to Anna [+see also:
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Garry Kasparov and Catherine Deneuve will attend the screening, as part of the 7th Cinema for Peace charity gala, an event supported by internationally acclaimed stars such as Monica Bellucci, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Liza Minelli, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The film is based on interviews with the Russian journalist carried out by Bergkraut when making Coca: The Dove from Chechnya (a cinematic portrait of the Chechnyan human rights campaigner Saïnap Gachayeva), which won the International Human Rights Movie Award at the 2007 Cinema for Peace gala.
Letter to Anna is co-produced by p.s.72 productions (Zurich) and Zero One Film (Berlin), with financial backing from the three Swiss national television networks (SF, TSR, TSI) and German channels 3sat, Das Erste, MDR and RBB.
(Translated from French)
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