A Letter to Elia

Release Date: 2010-09-04

Overview: Martin Scorsese reflects on the profound influence of director Elia Kazan, tracing his artistic journey from the Group Theatre to Hollywood success and the controversies of the blacklist era. Co-directed with Kent Jones, the film combines interviews and clips from Kazan’s classics—On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and America, America—to portray him as a deeply personal filmmaker within an often impersonal industry.

Rating: 6.455 / 10

Cast

Elia Kazan

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Scorsese

as Self - Narrator

Elias Koteas

as Elia Kazan (Voice)