The Long Silence.Margarethe Von Trotta is one of those German film directors who is known to and appreciated by only a small circle of American cineastes, which isn't surprising since so few of the German films This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany. The list is not divided into decades, but into periods of different political eras. For an alphabetical list of articles on German films see . are shown in the U.S. Her picture THE LONG SILENCE, a French-Italian coproduction, made also with the help of a Munich company, gets its first American First American may refer to:
The story deals with the breakdown of law and order in Italy today, and the key incident undoubtedly is taken from the murder of two Italian investigative judges by the Mafia in Palermo in 1992. It was an outrage that sparked an Italian revolt against the Mafia underworld and set in motion the new movement against political corruption In broad terms, political corruption is the misuse by government officials of their governmental powers for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, like repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political and crime in Italian society. Von Trotta describes the fear that underlies a breakdown like this, and she does it in purely human terms - the judge, Jacques Perrin Jacques Perrin (born July 13, 1941 in Paris) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director. , is on the trail of an arms dealer group whose tentacles reach way up into the Italian government. He lives with danger, and this has devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. effect on his wife, superbly portrayed by Carla Gravina. When the judge is killed, she picks up where he left off but - eventually - also is assassinated as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. . The message of the picture: If enough people, and particularly women, are outraged by what happened, the voices raised in protest can and will restore sanity to society and to government. Van Trotta has a deft deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. directorial hand, and she has the knack of creating tension even in parts of the film that seem quite slow and apparently devoted mostly to dialogue, though the lines are never trite and are always aimed at conveying the sense of despair and violence that permeates the society. Only in the final shots, when Gravina is shot down in a telephone booth, is the brutality of murder actually portrayed on the screen, and with devastating effect. Van Trotta catches the many sensitive nuances of existence in an atmosphere of fear, when all order seems to break down and government on the high level no longer can -or will - protect the honest individual. Even the elderly magistrate in the end retires rather than face an unexpected death. |
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