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Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die(1979)
Status: Released
Date: 1979-04-26
95%
2 Votes
Time: 1h 20m
Overview:
It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long life in film and theater service. He plays an old peasant who on his deathbed is waiting for his son (Jon Bang Carlsen). In a few days he relives the village life, he comes from, and which was marked by a hard and authoritarian upbringing. He is at his father's deathbed despair because it is still impossible to make contact, and in a crisis situation, he recognizes his father's brutality in itself. The film draws a bitter picture of human relationships where dreams while they die, degenerates into power relations.
Languages: Danish.
Countries:
Denmark
ProductionCompanies:
Dagmar Filmproduktion
Movie: Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die
Top 5 Billed Cast
Kai Holm
Kresten, Eriks far
Karl Stegger
Hurtig-Karl
Jon Bang Carlsen
Erik, politiker
Irm Hermann
Margit, Eriks kone
Holger Nederby
Ras
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Overview
It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long life in film and theater service. He plays an old peasant who on his deathbed is waiting for his son (Jon Bang Carlsen). In a few days he relives the village life, he comes from, and which was marked by a hard and authoritarian upbringing. He is at his father's deathbed despair because it is still impossible to make contact, and in a crisis situation, he recognizes his father's brutality in itself. The film draws a bitter picture of human relationships where dreams while they die, degenerates into power relations.
Release Date
1979-04-26
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