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The Last Happy Day (2009)
Directed by Lynne Sachs
Documentary · 38m
THE LAST HAPPY DAY is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of “Winnie the Pooh” into Latin, an eccentric task that catapulted him to brief world-wide fame. Sachs’ essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews and a children’s performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Lynne Sachs
- Writer
- Sandor Lenard, Lynne Sachs
- Director of Photography
- Lynne Sachs, Ethan Mass
- Editor
- Lynne Sachs
Details
- Release date
- 2009-10-07
- Runtime
- 38m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America