Dead Man’s Letters / Письмамёртвогочеловека

On the „critique of capitalism and the state in the Soviet dystopia 80-XX“. The second Cinema lecture with a following discussion (in english language)

Dead Man’s Letters / Письмамёртвогочеловека, 1987
Country: Soviet Union-Germany
Directed by Konstantin Loupshansky

The title Letters From a Dead Man sums up the story in this bleak speculative drama. Undoubtedly inspired by the Chernobyl incident, the film takes place in a Soviet village which is devastated by a nuclear meltdown. Professor Rolan Bykov, sitting alone in a bomb shelter, begins composing letters to his son, who disappeared shortly after the accident. Bykov knows that he himself is doomed; he hopes that such is not the case with his son.