A Letter to Jonathan (1980)

A Letter to Jonathan (1980) - Drama Movies 12 minutes. . 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. letter, death, farmer, catskills, death of wife, 1910s, sad story, 1890s, very little dialogue