Silent Country
Stilles Land
Release: 1992-05-07
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 5.7
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf'
Ex Picturis
Max Film
Cast
Burkhard Heyl
as Thomas
Petra Kelling
as Uschi
Horst Westphal
as Horst
Hans-Uwe Bauer
as Peter
Asad Schwarz
as Theo
Alexander Schubert
as Eleven
Thorsten Merten
as Kai Finke
Jeannette Arndt
as Claudia
Kurt Böwe
as Intendant Walz
Katrin Martin
as Tina
Yvonne Hornack
as Eleven
Ernst Meincke
as Busfahrer