Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)

7.2/10 52 min Documentary

Overview

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.

Cast

Jane Fonda

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean-Luc Godard

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Gorin

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Marlon Brando

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Moshe Dayan

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Dean

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Maria Falconetti

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Fonda

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lillian Gish

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Che Guevara

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Golda Meir

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Yves Montand

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Wayne

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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