Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die

  • April 1979
  • 1hr

    20mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Christian Braad Thomsen,

    Starring

    Kai Holm,

    Karl Stegger,

    Irm Hermann,

    Holger Nederby

    ...

    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.