Dreflix: Love Letters in Somalia

Love Letters in Somalia

In this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the present intertwine with the incessant echoes of lost love, combining intimate pain with the misery of a country torn apart by internal struggles and poverty.

1982

1h 35min

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Frédéric Mitterrand
Narrator (uncredited)

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