Silent Night - A Festival of Love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Silent Night - A Festival of Love |
| Original title | silent Night |
| Country of production | Germany , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dani Levy |
| script |
Klaus Chatten , Dani Levy, Maria Schrader |
| production |
Stefan Arndt , Dani Levy, Rolf Schmid |
| music | Niki Reiser |
| camera | Carl-Friedrich Koschnick |
| cut |
Gebhard Henke , Martin Schmassmann , Andreas Schreitmüller |
| occupation | |
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Silent Night is a German-Swiss film by Dani Levy from 1995 .
action
A woman in her early thirties is pregnant. Two men can be considered as fathers. She lives with Christian, a crime detective with experience in Tai Chi , in his apartment, and has shared a bed with the younger bartender Frank for some time. A state that doesn't make anyone happy, which is why all three try to put things right at Christmas of all times . Christian fled to Paris and stayed in the hotel where he once spent happy hours with Julia. There he sets himself a deadline of eight hours within which he wants to win back his lover over the phone. Julia expects Frank to a kind of farewell dinner to open the end of the affair for him, while Frank considers Christmas Eve to be the most suitable date to finally confess his love to her. But neither one nor the other really succeeds, because the phone keeps ringing, the line is cut or the situation is too distracted for the protagonists to trample free. After this night, which is not at all quiet, they only find (temporary) peace at dawn, when life on the streets awakens again.
criticism
"A relationship drama overflowing with references and subthemes, which achieves a remarkable formal unity through the extraordinary image design, but which does not find any equivalent in a deepening of the plot."
Awards
- 1996: Berlinale 1996 - Alfred Bauer Prize - Special Mention for Dani Levy
- 1996: Berlinale 1996 - nomination for the Golden Bear to Dani Levy
- 1996: Mystfest nomination for the best film to Dani Levy
- 1997: Bavarian film award for the best camera to Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
- 1997: Bavarian film award for the best music to Niki Reiser
background
The film was shot in Berlin , Paris and in the Babelsberg film studio in Potsdam ,
Web links
- Silent Night - A celebration of love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Silent Night - A celebration of love at filmportal.de
- Silent Night - A celebration of love at swissfilms.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silent Night - A Festival of Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .