Film lecture 2/4: Dead Man's Letters (Письмамёртвогочеловека) 1987

The second Cinema lecture with a following discussion (in english language)

Movie:

Dead Man’s Letters (Письмамёртвогочеловека) 1987

Country: Soviet Union-Germany

Directed by Konstantin Loupshansky

The title Letters From a Dead Man sums up the story in this bleak speculative drama. Undoubtedly inspired by the Chernobyl incident, the film takes place in a Soviet village which is devastated by a nuclear meltdown. Professor Rolan Bykov, sitting alone in a bomb shelter, begins composing letters to his son, who disappeared shortly after the accident. Bykov knows that he himself is doomed; he hopes that such is not the case with his son.