I Sent a Letter to My Love

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Moshé Mizrahi
  • France 1981
  • 112 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.

Filmography: A Week End in the Galilee (2008), Women (1997), Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986), War and Love (1985), La vie continue (1982), Madame Rosa (1977), Rachel's Man (1975), The House on Chelouche Street (1973), I Love You Rosa (1972).


  • Director Moshé Mizrahi
  • Production Lise Fayolle, Giorgio Silvagni
  • Script Moshé Mizrahi, Gérard Brach, based on the novel by Bernice Rubens
  • Cinematography Ghislain Cloquet
  • Editing Françoise Bonnot
  • Music Philippe Sarde
  • Actors Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig