The rest is silence (film)

Movie
Original title	The rest is silence
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Helmut Käutner
script	Helmut Käutner
production	Independent Film Production, Hamburg ( Harald Braun Helmut Käutner Wolfgang Staudte )
music	Bernhard Eichhorn
camera	Igor Oberberg
cut	Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation
Hardy Krüger : John H. Claudius Peter van Eyck : Paul Claudius Ingrid Andree : Fee von Pohl Adelheid Seeck : Gertrud Claudius Rudolf Forster : Dr. from Pohl Boy Gobert : Mike R. Krantz Rainer Penkert : Major Horace Heinz Drache : Herbert von Pohl Charles Regnier : Detective Fortner Richard Allan : Stanley Goulden Robert Meyn : Dr. Voltmann Erwin Linder : Director Reinhold Nietschmann : Director Cornelius Josef Sieber : Works porter Werner Schumacher : works driver Joachim Wolff : 1st cemetery gardener Erich Weiher : 2nd cemetery gardener Gustl Busch : pub landlady Siegfried Schürenberg : Johannes Claudius Balduin Baas : Secretary Helmut Käutner : Drunk pub guest

The rest is silence is a German feature film from 1959. The title is based on the last words of the protagonist in William Shakespeare's Hamlet - "The rest is silence".

action

1959 in the Ruhr area . John H. Claudius is the heir to the Claudius steelworks and lived in the USA for many years . His father was killed in a bomb attack during the last days of the war. However, John doubts the death story, he believes that his father was murdered. When he returned to the Ruhr area, his mother Gertrud was married to his uncle Paul. The relationship between John and his stepfather is characterized by mutual distrust. When John's friends Mike R. Krantz and Stanley Goulden come to town with their ballet company , he wants to use them to prove that Uncle Paul is his father's murderer. They are performing a ballet in which they stage the murder of John's father. But John has no evidence for the murder and is declared insane by Paul and Gertrud. Dr. von Pohl issues a corresponding report with which John is to be brought to a closed institution. But John sees through the intrigue.

In the end, Paul is shot by Gertrud.

Production notes

The film was produced from January 7, 1959 in the Real-Film-Studio Hamburg-Wandsbek . The outdoor shots were taken in Düsseldorf-Lohausen , Oberhausen and London . The premiere took place on July 8, 1959 in the Gloria-Palast Berlin.

Awards

Cinematographer Igor Oberberg received the German Film Critics' Prize in 1960.

Reviews

Karl Korn interpreted the film in the FAZ as a "tragedy of emigration", while Georg Ramseger considered Käutner's staging to be of little importance in the world . In retrospect, Claudius Seidl found that Käutner had risked more than usual, but the film ultimately failed because the director "found it difficult to decide whether he wanted to produce a thriller, a salon or tabloid play or a strenuous coming to terms with the past."

The lexicon of international film was also cautious. The film seems implausible in its socially critical aspects and is exhausted in arts and crafts endeavors.

Awards

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

The film took part in the competition at the Berlinale in 1959 , but did not receive any awards.

Web links

• The rest is silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The rest is silence at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Helmut Käutner
2. ^ The German film of the fifties by Claudius Seidl. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-86102-7 , p. 158 f.
3. ↑ The rest is silence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .