Film/Video THE LAST LETTER (LA DERNIERE LETTRE) DIRECTED BY FREDERICK WISEMAN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2003, 8 PM $7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM NOVEMBER  2 | 5 | 6, 1 PM | 6, 8 PM | 9 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 21   This drama is set in 1941 in a small city in the Ukraine just seized by the Germans. Here a Russian Jewish doctor writes a final letter to her son, a famous physicist who is far from the front lines at a Soviet research institute. The letter, with its detailed observations of daily life in the ghetto, reveals the fear, courage, frailty, compassion, and dignity of this woman as she reviews her life and faces her death. The screenplay, written by Vasily Grossman, is based on his book Life and Fate. Catherine Samie offers a rigorous and lyric performance in the role of the mother. 2002, U.S./France, BW, 35mm, in French with English subtitles, 61 minutes. FREDERICK WISEMAN: A SENSE OF PLACE IS MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE REGIS FOUNDATION.