Dead Man’s Letters (1986)

Directed by Konstantin Lopushansky · Cinematography by Nikolai Pokoptsev

87 min49 frames

DramaScience Fiction

In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.

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