Films by Sibylle Tiedemann

Germany 2009
by Sibylle Tiedemann

Letters from Chicago is a very personal film portrait of Lore Frank, née Hirsch (*1917), and Gustav Frank (1912-2004), who married and began a new life in Chicago after emigrating to the U.S. in 1939 - but never lost touch with their german roots. Gustav is a passionate amateur photographer. Even as a boy in Ulm, he used to imagine how something would look as a photograph and dream of having a camera of his own some day. His earliest portraits of members of his large extended Jewish family and c