A Letter to Jonathan

  • January 1980
  • 12mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    John Cline,

    Starring

    Jim Maillahu,

    Rebecca Knaust,

    Joseph Bruno,

    Barbara Layton

    ...

    A film with very little dialogue. Set in the Catskills of 1896 – 1916, a farmer buries his deceased wife atop a nearby mountain, then makes the difficult decision to give up his newborn son, Jonathan. Later in 1916, Jonathan returns to confront his past. The only real dialogue is a voice over of the father reading a letter he wrote to his son explaining himself.