The Silent Touch (1992)
DVDRip | MKV | 692x566 | x264 @ 2302 Kbps | 91 min | 1,60 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: Russian (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 692x566 | x264 @ 2302 Kbps | 91 min | 1,60 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: Russian (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Writers: Peter Morgan, Mark Wadlow
Stars: Max von Sydow, Lothaire Bluteau, Sarah Miles
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
This rarely-seen curiosity is one of only a few films shot in English by its Polish director, Krzysztof Zanussi. It was also the first film scripted by Peter Morgan, later to achieve fame as the scriptwriter for The Queen [2006] and the creator of the Netflix series The Crown.
The all-star cast includes Max von Sydow as Kesdi (a performance which won him the Best Actor award at Tokyo in 1993), Lothaire Bluteau, Sarah Miles, and a young Sofie Gråbøl, who later became the face of Nordic Noir and Faeroe Islands knitwear in the Danish TV series The Killing.
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