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Silent Country
(Stilles Land)

Screening on Film
Directed by Andreas Dresen.
With Thorsten Merten, Jeanette Arndt, Kurt Bowe.
Germany, 1992, 16mm, color, 98 min.
German with English subtitles.

Theater rehearsals in a provincial GDR city are thrown into confusion by the fall of the Berlin Wall. Silent Country presents a group of people amidst the upheavals caused by the political revolution in the former GDR. They act in a variety of ways: simply doing as they have always done, or rapidly adjusting to the new circumstances.

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