Broken Silence (1996 film)
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Broken Silence | |
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Directed by | Wolfgang Panzer |
Produced by |
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Starring | Martin Huber Ameenah Kaplan Michael Moriarty |
Cinematography |
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Edited by | Claudio Di Mauro |
Music by | Filippo Trecca |
Distributed by | Camera Obscura (Switzerland) |
Release date | 1996 |
Running time | 106 min |
Country | Switzerland |
Languages | English German |
Broken Silence is a film by Swiss director Wolfgang Panzer that was first theatrically released in 1996 in Germany.
Plot
The
Cast
- Martin Huber as Fried Adelphi
- Ameenah Kaplan as Ashaela
- Michael Moriarty as Mulligan
- Colonel R.K. Kapoor as Immigration Officer
Production
Spoken English in this Wolfgang Panzer's film comes in different variants: German-Swiss English by Huber, New York English by Kaplan, also Indian and Indonesian English.
Most of the location scenes were shot with a camcorder in
Reception
Broken Silence was released with eleven copies in German cinemas and within a year garnered some 160,000 spectators. It was shown in at the 1998 Katholikentag in Mainz. The jury of the Bavarian film award specially invented a new category honoring Panzer's English-language film.
"It would be easy to simply mock the rules of the religious man, that anachronistic and sometimes too little social must be the modern Europeans. Wolfgang Panzer succeeds the unexpected: almost from behind this monk starts along with his awkward intolerability, his stalwart adherence to his commandments and rituals, to grow the audience at the heart with his childish piety and his astonished awakening to the world. Fried's odyssey is an educational trip, never yet seen in the cinema. Broken Silence is not a pious nor a religious film - it tells the story of a socialization. The monk needs much time and long distances to find out from his self-centeredness. That he sometimes gives off a ridiculous figure, he begins to suspect; but he accepts it with dignity."[1]
Awards
- 1995: Shanghai International Film Festival: Best Film
- 1996: Geneva Cinéma Tout Ecran: Wolfgang Panzer
- 1996: Cinéprix Télécom: Audience Award
- 1996: Chicago International Film Festival - Silver Hugo Award: Best Supporting Actor: Michael Moriarty
- 1996: Bavarian Film Awards - Special Prize: Wolfgang Panzer
- 1997: Berliner Kunstpreis (Academy of Arts, Berlin): Wolfgang Panzer[2]
See also
- Carthusians
- Resurrection of the dead (Christianity)
- Catholic views on cremation
References
- ^ EPD film, 11/1996, quoted from: cinematographer 6/1997
- ^ Academy of Arts: Berlin Art Prize laureates
External links
- Broken Silence at IMDb
- Trailer