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Silent Country
Silent Country
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SILENT COUNTRY

Stilles Land

Directed by Andreas Dresen
Germany, 1992
Drama

Synopsis

1989. An idealistic director comes to a provincial town in East Germany to put on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the local theater. Although the unenthusiastic performers show no interest in the play, he remains undaunted. Meanwhile, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place.

Synopsis

1989. An idealistic director comes to a provincial town in East Germany to put on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the local theater. Although the unenthusiastic performers show no interest in the play, he remains undaunted. Meanwhile, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place.

Our take

Reality threatens more drama than any thespian production in Andreas Dresen’s debut feature, set during the historic fall of the Berlin Wall. Tragicomic where mainstream media was celebrating, this droll film casts critical doubt on art and its metaphors during times of tumultuous change.