TY - ADVS AU - Dresen,Andreas AU - Bauer,Hans-Uwe AU - Arndt,Jeannette AU - Böwe,Kurt AU - Noack,Mathias AU - Merten,Thorsten ED - DEFA Film Library (Firm), ED - Kanopy (Firm), TI - Silent Country PY - 1992/// PB - DEFA Film Library KW - Motion pictures, German KW - Foreign films KW - Drama KW - Motion pictures KW - Feature films KW - lcgft N1 - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; Hans-Uwe Bauer, Jeannette Arndt, Kurt Böwe, Mathias Noack, Thorsten Merten; Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1992 N2 - A young, naive and enthusiastic director comes to a provincial town in East Germany to put on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the local theater. Although the lethargic company shows no interest in the play, he remains undaunted. Meanwhile it is fall 1989 and far away in the capital a revolution is taking place. This gentle comedy is the debut film of renowned German director Andreas Dresen. Silent Country took the 1993 International Film Festival in Berlin by storm and received both the Hesse Film Award and the German Critics’ Award UR - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/11134229 UR - https://www.kanopy.com/node/11134229/external-image ER -