'Sometimes people ask me how I can still be alive. It is a miracle', Anna Politskovkaya says to filmmaker Eric Bergkraut. For Letter to Anna he has used images from a film he had planned to make; a film about the human rights journalist who put her life on the line through her critical writings of the Russian government. The material that Bergkraut collected has been used in this film to reconstruct the events which led to the murder of Politskovkaya. As well as a reconstruction, the film is a portrait of a tireless fighter for justice, and a sketch of corrupt and merciless Russian politics. Interviews with Politskovkaya are intertwined with archival footage and conversations with family members, colleagues and other political activists.
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Eric Bergkraut Director
First release February 18, 2008 · Produced in Germany, Switzerland · Languages English, Russian
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Schweizer Fernsehen (SF)
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Zero One Film
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Germany · Switzerland
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Original title
Ein Artikel zu viel
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
English · Russian
Release dates
Switzerland · February 18, 2008
German speaking region
No release date listed for United States.
Croatia
February 1, 2009 · Zagreb Dox Film Festival
Czechia
March 6, 2008 · Premiere · One World Film Festival
Denmark
November 7, 2008 · CPH:DOX
France
November 18, 2009 · Theatrical
Germany
February 19, 2008 · Theatrical
Greece
March 18, 2009 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Taiwan
November 2, 2008 · Taiwan International Documentary Festival
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