Silent Country

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.

1992

1h 35min

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Top Billed Cast

Thorsten Merten
Kai Finke
Jeannette Arndt
Claudia
Kurt Böwe
Intendant Walz
Petra Kelling
Uschi
Horst Westphal
Horst
Katrin Martin
Tina
Mathias Noack
Felix
Asad Schwarz
Theo
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Peter
Burkhard Heyl
Thomas
Heinz Lyschik
Bühnenbildner
Ernst Meincke
Busfahrer
Hans Jochen Röhrig
Pfarrer
Wolf-Dieter Lingk
Roman Silberstein

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