Silent Heart - My life is mine

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Movie
German title Silent Heart - My life is mine
Original title There was silence
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2014
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Bille August
script Christian Torpe
production Jesper Morthorst
music Annette Focks
camera Dirk Brüel
cut Janus Billeskov Jansen , Anne Østerud
occupation

Silent Heart - My life is mine (Original title: Stille hjerte ) is a Danish feature film by Bille August from 2014. The drama deals with the issue of active euthanasia .

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Esther, an elderly lady with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , has decided, with the consent of her family, to end her life with the help of pills. Before that, she would like to spend another weekend with all her loved ones: the older daughter Heidi with husband Michael and son Jonathan, the younger daughter Sanne with boyfriend Dennis and Esther's lifelong girlfriend Lisbeth appear in the parents' house. Esther would like to celebrate an early Christmas with the guests before her husband Poul, a former doctor, is supposed to give her the fatal dose after the guests have left on Sunday evening.

While Heidi initially unreservedly supports her mother's plans, the mentally unstable Sanne finds it difficult to deal with the situation. Her relationship with Dennis, who openly lives out his drug use, has fluctuated for years between separation and renewed reconciliation. Finally, Sanne announces that she will call an ambulance as soon as her mother has taken the pills. When Heidi hears about it from Dennis, she tries to dissuade her sister from doing this.

On Sunday night, Heidi happened to see Poul and Lisbeth kissing. Suddenly she doubts that her father can still properly assess the situation. In the morning she reveals her observation to Sanne. Since Esther has always insisted that the family must agree on her planned death, the sisters decide to withdraw from the agreement. You confront Esther with this decision, but she says it is too late. The angry Heidi then calls an ambulance. When Poul confronts her about it, she confronts him with her nightly observation. He and Esther then reveal that his relationship with Lisbeth goes back to Esther's express wish so that both of them do not become lonely after her death. Since Heidi only said on the phone that someone in the house had taken sleeping pills, Sanne, who was taking psychotropic drugs, decided to go with the ambulance. Dennis accompanies them; the other guests say goodbye to Esther and Poul and leave the house. Then Poul gives his wife the tablets.

background

The film was shot in Kerteminde on Funen . Filming began on November 18, 2013 and lasted seven weeks. On September 20, 2014, the film had its world premiere at the Spanish Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián , where it was celebrated with a twenty-minute standing ovation . A Danish preview took place on October 31, 2014 in Kerteminde; on November 13, 2014 the film opened regularly in Danish cinemas.

From March 24, 2016, the film was also shown in German cinemas.

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  1. ↑ a b Kerteminde beriges af endnu en film! (No longer available online.) VisitKerteminde, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; accessed on April 2, 2016 (Danish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visitkerteminde.dk
  2. ↑ a b Bille August tilbage på Fyn. FilmFyn, November 14, 2013, accessed April 2, 2016 (Danish).
  3. ↑ a b Nicolas Stig Nielsen: Bille Augusts nye film er om aktiv dødshjælp: For mig handler det om værdighed. DR .dk, September 21, 2014, accessed April 2, 2016 (Danish).