Directed by:
Helmut KäutnerCinematography:
Igor OberbergComposer:
Bernhard EichhornCast:
Hardy Krüger, Peter van Eyck, Ingrid Andree, Adelheid Seeck, Rudolf Forster, Boy Gobert, Rainer Penkert, Heinz Drache, Charles Regnier, Siegfried Schürenberg (more)Plots(1)
Slowly, the emigrants (far from all, but still quite a few) returned. Although that's technically the wrong word: returned – for the country they now came to didn't exist when they were forced (or felt the political necessity, compulsion, need) to leave. Many things indeed changed since, but quite a few remained the same from the Weimar Republic through the "Third Reich" and the post-war wasteland of total occupation to the relative independence of the Bonn Republic – one of those being the economic empires of the Ruhr region where most of the nation's heavy industries could then be found. Those dynasties of money and merit (the industrialist way) are the world in which Helmut Käutner set his modernised and quite noir'ish Hamlet, with Hardy Krüger as the scion who here returns to the family estate after years abroad, in exile. Few and far apart are the Shakespeare-modernisations that equal this in intelligence – incl. some radical changes that forcefully speak of the era's particular problems and needs. Never before and never again looked the iron foundries and collieries of the Ruhr region more majestic, impervious almost – in all that stunningly beautiful. Der Rest ist Schweigen, just like Monpti, had been vilely overlooked in its own days, probably because the critical establishment didn't know how to deal with the very unique brand of FRG-Modernism masters like Käutner, Staudte or Rolf Thiele started to develop – too home-grown for comfort, one is tempted to quip... (OM) (Midnight Sun Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Hardy Krüger
German Empire
Best movies:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
To Each His Hell (1977)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Peter van Eyck
German Empire
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Ingrid Andree
German Empire
Best movies:
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957)
Tears of Stone (1995)
Transfer (2010)
Adelheid Seeck
German Empire
Best movies:
Girls in Uniform (1958)
Rudolf Forster
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Brainwashed (1960)
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
Boy Gobert
German Empire
Best movies:
Kamikaze 89 (1982)
Monpti (1957)
Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)
Rainer Penkert
German Empire
Best movies:
Wir Wunderkinder (1958)
The Longest Day (1962)
Morituri (1965)
Heinz Drache
German Empire
Best movies:
The Mysterious Magician (1964)
Shots in 3/4 Time (1965)
Town Without Pity (1961)
Charles Regnier
Switzerland
Best movies:
Die schöne Lügnerin (1959)
No Place to Go (2000)
Freud (1962)
Siegfried Schürenberg
German Empire
Best movies:
The Bridge (1959)
Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964)
The Mysterious Magician (1964)
Richard Allan
USA
Best movies:
Three Little Words (1950)
The Racers (1955)
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Josef Sieber
German Empire
Best movies:
They Live by Night (1948)
Madame Sans-Gêne (1961)
Robert Meyn
German Empire
Best movies:
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
The Story of a Sinner (1951)
Erwin Linder
German Empire
Best movies:
Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
Tip Not Included (1966)
Werner Schumacher
German Empire
Best movies:
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
The Devil's General (1955)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Joachim Wolff
German Empire
Best movies:
Die schöne Lügnerin (1959)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
The Mysterious Magician (1964)
Erich Weiher
German Empire
Best movies:
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
Dark Eyes of London (1961)
Balduin Baas
Poland
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
Gustl Busch
German Empire
Best movies:
The Devil's General (1955)
Adolf Hitler (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation) - a.f.
The King's Speech (2010) - a.f.
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie) - a.f.