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Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die (1979)

Directed by Christian Braad Thomsen

Overview

It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long life in film and theater service. He plays an old peasant who on his deathbed is waiting for his son (Jon Bang Carlsen). In a few days he relives the village life, he comes from, and which was marked by a hard and authoritarian upbringing. He is at his father’s deathbed despair because it is still impossible to make contact, and in a crisis situation, he recognizes his father’s brutality in itself. The film draws a bitter picture of human relationships where dreams while they die, degenerates into power relations.

Length 80 minutes

Actors

Kai Holm | Karl Stegger | Jon Bang Carlsen | Irm Hermann | Holger Nederby