Silent Country
1992 · 95 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 142 VOTES · DIR. Andreas Dresen
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 901 lines
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00:00:29 SILENT COUNTRY
00:04:45 Horst!
00:08:36 The stage. Auditorium.
00:12:38 A year. -And?
00:15:25 You'll get it back in West Marks someday.
00:19:18 The ''artist'' will tell me.
00:21:56 Say, when does this Godot appear?
00:24:53 l mean...
00:28:21 No!
00:31:10 lt wouldn't hurt to clean the showcases.
00:33:48 stay so aggressive!
00:36:24 l think we'd best start from the bottom up.
00:45:00 the hopelessness.
00:47:43 l feel somehow...somehow... threatened!
00:53:28 Therefore, before the performance...
00:59:38 lD control. Well
01:03:05 Move, you idiot thing!
01:06:55 But l flipped out anyway.
01:10:13 Such a big one??!!
01:12:56 Already forgotten.
01:16:24 Everyone in the dress rehearsal on stage, please.
01:20:18 You follow my reasoning?
01:24:55 Telephone! For Rautenberg. From Mainz.
198:09:09 SeaSOn.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed901
Dialogue density9.5 lines / min
First line00:00:29
Final line198:09:09
Production Record
DirectorAndreas Dresen
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes142