Silent Country.

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FilmPublisher number: 12134228 | KanopyPublisher: DEFA Film Library, 1992Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Feature films.

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Hans-Uwe Bauer, Jeannette Arndt, Kurt Böwe, Mathias Noack, Thorsten MertenSummary: 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.

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Hans-Uwe Bauer, Jeannette Arndt, Kurt Böwe, Mathias Noack, Thorsten Merten

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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.

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