Letters to Max (2014)

Directed by Eric Baudelaire · Cinematography by Eric Baudelaire

103 min162 frames

Documentary

A record of the epistolary encounter between French artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of the breakaway Caucasian state of Abkhazia, Letters to Max is both a chronicle of a developing friendship and an ingenious, unusual essay film about the inherently speculative nature of nationhood.

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