The Last Happy Day
2009 · Lynne Sachs · 37 min · Documentary, Short · United States
Spoken in English
Subtitled in English and Portuguese
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…