A Letter to Elia

Synopsis

Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan's signature films including "On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Gentleman's Agreement," "Baby Doll," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "A Face in the Crowd," "America, America," and "The Last Tycoon," and interview footage of the director himself, co-directors Scorsese and Kent Jones recount the director's tumultuous journey from the Group Theatre to the Hollywood A-list to the thicket of the blacklist. But most of all, they make a powerful case for Kazan as a profoundly personal artist working in a famously impersonal industry.

Main Cast

Elia Kazan

Self (archive footage)

Age : 94 | Popularity : 4%

Martin Scorsese

Self - Narrator

Age : 81 | Popularity : 26%

Elias Koteas

Elia Kazan (Voice)

Age : 63 | Popularity : 35%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Martin Scorsese Kent Jones
Production	Producer	Martin Scorsese Emma Tillinger Koskoff
	Executive Producer	Stone Douglass Taylor Materne
	Consulting Producer	Diane Kolyer
	Co-Producer	Rachel Reichman
Crew	Thanks	Luc Dardenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Camera	Director of Photography	Mark Raker
Editing	Editor	Rachel Reichman
Department	Role	Name

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