The Last Poem

Overview

This film taken from the last poem by Robert Desnos, who died of typhus less than a week after liberation from the concentration camp Terezin, in the former Czechoslovakia. In his pocket was found a poem, this "dernier poème”, dedicated to his wife. But actually it is largely the same as the last stanza of a poem, “J'ai tant rêvé de toi” from Corps et biens, published in 1930. The film had traced a voice of Robert Desnos in modern cemeteries.