Silent Country

Silent Country

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 7, 1992

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.

Silent Country

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 7, 1992

Silent Country
A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf', Max Film, Ex Picturis
Original title Stilles Land
Directors Andreas Dresen
Writers Laila Stieler, Andreas Dresen

Cast

Thorsten Merten

as Kai Finke

Jeannette Arndt

as Claudia

Kurt Böwe

as Intendant Walz

Petra Kelling

as Uschi

Horst Westphal

as Horst

Katrin Martin

as Tina

Mathias Noack

as Felix

Asad Schwarz

as Theo

Hans-Uwe Bauer

as Peter

Burkhard Heyl

as Thomas

Heinz Lyschik

as Bühnenbildner

Ernst Meincke

as Busfahrer

Hans Jochen Röhrig

as Pfarrer