Plot Summary

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture "helps me remember what it was like to be me." He tells her about sorties into No Man's Land, and that they have orders tonight to charge. Then, his letter becomes a report of that charge: toward an armed German soldier who doesn't fire, even when John reaches him and jumps into the trench beside him. What happens next brings silence and an end to the letter.

Movie Details

Original Title
A Letter from the Western Front
Status
released
Original Language
en

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Production Companies

Ex Mortis Films
Imperial War Museums logoImperial War Museums
Marathon County Public Library
New York Public Library
Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) logoTisch School of the Arts (NYU)
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