Movielogr
Silent Country (1992)
Directed by Andreas Dresen
Overview
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.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Thorsten Merten | Jeannette Arndt | Kurt Böwe | Petra Kelling | Horst Westphal | Katrin Martin | Mathias Noack | Asad Schwarz | Hans-Uwe Bauer | Burkhard Heyl | Heinz Lyschik | Ernst Meincke | Hans Jochen Röhrig | Wolf-Dieter Lingk | Roman Silberstein