The Rest Is Silence
1959 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
‘The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film’s script is a “mufti” version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero’s father.’
Direction Helmut Käutner
Cast Hardy Krüger · Peter van Eyck · Ingrid Andree · Adelheid Seeck · Rudolf Forster · Boy Gobert · Rainer Penkert · Heinz Drache · Charles Régnier · Siegfried Schürenberg · Richard Allan · Josef Sieber · Robert Meyn · Erwin Linder · Werner Schumacher
Soundtrack Bernhard Eichhorn
Screenplay Helmut Käutner · William Shakespeare
Cinematography Igor Oberberg
Original title Der Rest ist Schweigen (The Rest Is Silence)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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