Stille Liebe ( Amour Secret )

Stille Liebe (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Amour Secret
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Christoph Schaub

Written By:
Peter Purtschert
Christoph Schaub

Actors:
Emmanuelle Laborit ..... Antonia
Lars Otterstedt ..... Mikas
Renate Becker ..... Oberin Verena
Wolfram Berger ..... Fritz
Renate Steiger ..... Schwester Maya
Yevgeni Sitokhin ..... Joris
Elizabeth Abenchuchan
Sandra Abenojar
Andreas Ablanalb ..... Banker
Hajri Ammar
Rosella Andiani
Tamara Jo Beatty
Joosli Brunold
Alice Buck ..... Nun
Holly Bullard
Jerry Claus
Willi Conley ..... Theaterregisseur
Gordon Dadalt
F. Michael Davis
Gabriela Dietrich ..... Nun
Edgar Federli
Christian Fleischli ..... Polizist
Gregor Fruet
Jonas Gruber ..... Banker

Synopsis:

A nun must overcome a severe hearing impairment in order to find her place in the outside world in this well-regarded Swiss drama. Antonia (Emmanuelle Laborit) is a deaf woman in her late twenties who lost her parents as a child. With nowhere to go, Antonia was taken in by Verena (Renate Becker), the mother superior at a Swiss convent where many of the sisters have taken a vow of silence. When she was young, Antonia felt comfortable in these surroundings and came to join the order, but as she's grown older she begins to wonder if she made the right choice. Antonia begins doing volunteer work at a homeless shelter, where she meets Mikas (Lars Otterstetd), a petty thief and onetime carnival performer who is also deaf. Mikas boldly expresses his desire for Antonia, and to her surprise, she finds herself responding to his advances; the two become romantically involved, but their affair comes to an abrupt end when Mikas dies in an altercation with the police. Shattered by the experience, Antonia decides to sever her ties with Verena and the convent and travels to the United States, where she applies to study at Gallaudet University, an internationally renowned college for the deaf and hearing impaired where she can remake her life among others like herself. Emmanuelle Laborit, who plays Antonia, is in fact deaf and studied at Gallaudet University; in 1994, she published a book about her experiences as a student called The Cry of the Gull.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 07 December, 2005.

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