In Silence

In Silence

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 18, 2014

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

History, Drama

User Score

52%

Original Title

V tichu

Production Companies

RTVS, i/o post, Slovenský filmový ústav, Furia Film, Česká televize, Filmpark Production

Director

Zdeněk Jiráský

Description

Slovak musicologist Agata Schindlerová, now settled in Dresden, has spent years mapping out the forgotten destinies of Jewish musicians whose lives were irrevocably marked by the advance of nazism. Scenes from the lives of several of them are portrayed in the film In Silence (ballet dancer Alice Flachová, pianist and conductor Karol Ebert, composer, conductor and director of the Dresden Theatre Arthur Chitz, pianist Edith Kraus, and the vocal ensemble Comedian Harmonists), which draws a sharp contrast between the protagonists’ carefree existence working and making music during the pre-war era and the subsequent severe upheaval in their lives brought on by the proliferation of nazism.