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

  • NR
  • 04/26/1979 (DK)
  • Drama
  • 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.

Christian Braad Thomsen

Director

Cast

Kai Holm's headshot

Kai Holm

Kresten, Eriks far
Karl Stegger's headshot

Karl Stegger

Hurtig-Karl
Jon Bang Carlsen's headshot

Jon Bang Carlsen

Erik, politiker
Irm Hermann's headshot

Irm Hermann

Margit, Eriks kone
Holger Nederby's headshot

Holger Nederby

Ras

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