Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die (1979)

9.5/10 80 min Drama

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.

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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