The Last Happy Day by Lynne Sachs
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Uploaded by lynnesachs1 on Jun 15, 2011
The Last Happy Day
37 min. 2009 by Lynne Sachs
a portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran
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.
"A fascinating, unconventional approach to a Holocaust-related story ... a frequently charming work that makes no effort to disguise an underlying melancholy." George Robinson, The Jewish Week
"Exquisite...Sachs reclaims (Lenard's) dignity and purpose using letters, newsreel footage, and recreations of his environment as if to channel him back from the past." Todd Lillethun -- Program Director, Chicago Filmmakers
Premiere: New York Film Festival, 2009
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