Letters from War

Ivo M. Ferreira

IndieLisboa 2022 • Special Screenings - 5L

Portugal, Germany, Fiction, 2016, 105′

The colonial war separates António, a doctor integrated in the Portuguese army in eastern Angola, from his wife. The thread that unites them are the letters he writes to her, as he sees the horror of war and falls in love with the African continent.

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