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Socorro Nobre
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Title: Socorro Nobre

Release Date: 8 Nov 1995

Runtime: 23m

Genre: Documentary

Director: VideoFilmes

Production Companies: VideoFilmes

Overview: When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, while Franz is a tormented artist that lost his family and lived his childhood in a ghetto in Poland but survived the Holocaust. Franz moved to Brazil and recovered life wish living close to nature and inspires Socorro to dream with life again.

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Cast

  • Self: Franz Krajcberg
  • Self: Socorro Nobre
  • Self: Maria de Lourdes Lima
  • Self: Maria José Santana
  • Self: Renalice Santos Borges
  • Self: Edith Alves da Cruz
  • Self: Isabel Cristina
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