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Socorro Nobre (1995)

23m

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Socorro Nobre (1995)

Name: Socorro Nobre
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1995-11-08

23m

Running Time

November 8, 1995
Release Date

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Plot.

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 & Crew.

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

Self

Walter Salles

Director / Writer / Editor

Bruno Fernandes

Sound

Flávio Zangrandi

Assistant Camera

Eduardo Bid

Original Music Composer

Mini Kerti

Producer

Felipe Lacerda

Editor

Antonio Pinto

Original Music Composer

Walter Carvalho

Director of Photography

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Details.

Release Date
November 8, 1995

Status
Released

Running Time
23m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-04-26

Wiki.

Life Somewhere Else (Portuguese: Socorro Nobre) is a 1995 short documentary film directed by Walter Salles. It tells the story of Maria do Socorro Nobre, a Brazilian woman who, while serving a 20-year prison sentence, becomes inspired by the story of Polish artist Frans Krajcberg, and becomes pen pals with him.

Krajcberg himself co-wrote the film with director Walter Salles.