Silence (film)
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| Original title | silence |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| script | Christian Jeltsch |
| production | ARD Degeto Film, NDR , Sunset Austria GmbH |
| music | Stefan Bernheimer |
| camera | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| cut | Helga Borsche |
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Silence is a film drama by Xaver Schwarzenberger from 2013 with Jan Fedder in the leading role. The screenplay was written by Christian Jeltsch and the author is the British writer Tim Parks .
action
Harry, a journalist by profession, dares a tricky interview with a banker. The interview reveals a scandal, receives high ratings and catapults Harry to the height of his career. At the same time, his son Alex published a novel in which he gave his father the attributes greedy , horny and obsessive .
This state of affairs is unsustainable for Harry, he withdraws from the public, which until then offered him his livelihood. He also moves away from his partner Amanda, whom he has not married to this day despite having children together. Even though he cheated on her several times in the past, he still didn't want to leave her.
Harry withdraws to an abandoned hut on a mountain and has to learn there that a life of seclusion and solitude is not the guarantee for inner peace. Confronted with the unfamiliar situation, he not only fights against the silence, but also tries to come to terms with the accidental death of his daughter Angela. He realizes that he was probably not to blame for her death, but certainly for the sadness that surrounded Angela all her life.
His son Alex, however, notices that he has sometimes misjudged his father and that he himself is getting more and more into exactly the same direction. Then he drives to him in the mountains and both tentatively reconcile. Harry finally comes to the realization that his family is more important to him than the media career in public and is seriously willing to finally marry Amanda.
Production notes
The film premiered on German television on February 13, 2013 in Germany . The shooting took place in Hamburg , Linz , Innsbruck and Lienz .
reception
Audience ratings
When Stille was first broadcast on February 13, 2013, the film was seen by 4.96 million viewers, which corresponds to a share of 15.3 percent.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rated this film as “An egomaniacal talk show host pulls the rip cord. In the loneliness of the Alps, the smug Casanova undergoes a process of self-mortification. A good idea - but not for a TV movie. The ambitious project fails - also because of its medium, which can only deal with silence and one-person scenes with difficulty. The fragmented dramaturgy does not work in 'silence'. Stimulus follows stimulus; the thesis is followed by the antithesis, a story does not arise. And the truths about the mechanisms of the media conveyed here are banal. An honorable attempt, a good Fedder, nothing more! "
"" Spattered "told, played great."
Web links
- Silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silence (TV Movie 2013) - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Filming locations from the Internet Movie Database , accessed April 8, 2016.
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: Fedder, Berben, Jeltsch, Schwarzenberger. From the media circus to inner contemplation at tittelbach.tv, accessed on April 8, 2016.
- ^ Silence - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved June 7, 2015 .