The Last Happy Day

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Israel John Gerendasi

Sandor Lenard voice

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Lynne Sachs
Writing	Writer	Lynne Sachs Sandor Lenard
Camera	Director of Photography	Ethan Mass Lynne Sachs
Editing	Editor	Lynne Sachs
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