The country is quiet

Movie
Original title	The country is quiet
Country of production	Germany , Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1976
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Peter Lilienthal
script	Peter Lilienthal ; Antonio Skármeta
production	Peter Lilienthal ; Christa Reeh ; Joachim von Vietinghoff
music	Ángel Perra ; Christa Reeh
camera	Abel Alboim ; Robby Müller
cut	Siegrun hunter
occupation
	Charles Vanel : Grandfather Parra; Mario Pardo : Gustavo Parra; Eduardo Durán : Miguel Neira; Zita Duarte : Cecilia Neira; Henriqueta Maia : Maria Angelica; Luciano Noble : Paselli;

There is calm in the country is a feature film by the German director Peter Lilienthal from 1976 .

action

One day in Las Piedras, a small town in South America, political prisoners are imprisoned in the barracks that have been converted into a prison.

Mr Paselli rents a room in the Parra guesthouse and wants to visit his daughter Maria Angelica, who is a political prisoner. After he confides in the pensioner, the whole city finally finds out. With the pensioner's son and a doctor, he organizes an aid committee for the prisoners. Initially, the regime tolerated the encounters until some of the prisoners managed to break out of prison through smuggled weapons and uniforms. The military quickly takes power in the city, shoots the prisoners who have stayed behind and proclaims a state of emergency. At the funeral there was a mass demonstration, during which the residents openly show their protest. As a result, there were bloody street fights and a wave of arrests. The local football stadium is now being converted into a prison camp. Grandfather Parra goes to the camp voluntarily after his entire family has been interned. So there is calm again in the country, a country now without inhabitants.

Reviews

"Lilienthal's important film dispenses with cheap shock effects such as hollow pathos and derives its urgency solely from the power of its images."

- Lexicon of international film

"Hard stuff: nobody stays calm here!"

- Cinema

"The calm intensity of this film, which consistently dispenses with major effects, draws the viewer into the permanent threat."

- The authors' film publishing house

Awards

1976: German Film Award - Golden Bowl Challenge Award
1976: German Film Critics' Award in the "Best Feature Film" category

production

The film was produced by the Film-Fernsehen-Authors-Team GmbH (FFAT), ZDF and ORF. In the FRG, the film was released on January 16, 1976, in the GDR on April 1, 1977. The shooting took place from January to March 1975 in the Portuguese city of Setubal and Lisbon.

Web links

There is calm in the country in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Limmer: People arrested. Der Spiegel, February 9, 1976, accessed February 25, 2016 .
↑ There is calm in the country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Critique on cinema.de. Cinema, accessed February 26, 2016 .
↑ The 1970s: Film Publishing of the Authors. Munich City Museum, accessed on February 25, 2016 .
^ Winner since 1956. Association of German Film Critics, accessed on February 25, 2016 .

[1] Wolfgang Limmer: People arrested. Der Spiegel, February 9, 1976, accessed February 25, 2016 .

[2] There is calm in the country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] Critique on cinema.de. Cinema, accessed February 26, 2016 .

[4] The 1970s: Film Publishing of the Authors. Munich City Museum, accessed on February 25, 2016 .

[5] Winner since 1956. Association of German Film Critics, accessed on February 25, 2016 .