Broken Silence (film)
- Martin Huber: Fried Adelphi
- Ameenah Kaplan: Ashaela
- Michael Moriarty: Mulligan
Broken Silence is a film by Swiss director Wolfgang Panzer from the year 1995.
Action
After the Carthusian Fried Adelphi was spent during the two decades in the seclusion of a Swiss monastery, his prior commissioned him to make the owner of the Monastery locate in order to extend the expiring after nearly 100 years leasehold. This works as a mysterious volcanologist completely withdrawn somewhere in the mountains of Indonesia. Released from his vow of silence, Fried begins his journey and already experienced in the aircraft the expected culture shock. He loses his wallet that his seatmate, the African American drummer Ashaela from New York, unnoticed takes. From fear of flying Fried break the journey at Delhi airport from to resume it by boat, but gets the same money without difficulties.
Ashaela invites him now a paying the hotel and promises to accompany the Carthusians. Thus, a shared journey into India from Delhi to Bombay to Calcutta begins. Fried learns from internal resistors to adjust his clothes to the climate, and Ashaela confesses to him at the end of the origin of the travel fund. She is suffering from an incurable disease and will die. With their help, but keep to fulfill its task before he buried the girl at the Palm beach, at their pleasure, although he to violate his conception must. Before his return, he travels to New York to bring her girlfriend Ashaelas drumsticks.
Then look for Fried to a church to confess to. He meets pastors Mulligan, who sits as a future prince of the Church with mobile phone in the confessional to be accessible for the bishop and his promotion. Here the film begins: The Carthusian confesses piece by piece, what happened to him and what he has done, the New York churches manager listens to him, first reluctantly and impatient, then increasingly more interested. The audience experiences the road movie at the same pace in the flashbacks. At the end of white Mulligan, with whom he is about to go to confession.
Background
In the film, English is spoken in different versions: English Fried Swiss, New York English of Ashaela, Indian English, sometimes the Indian and Indonesian languages. The film was shot on Hi8 video plays first, and later on 35mm film. Broken Silence came with eleven copies released in Germany and brought it within a year to good 160,000 viewers and a video output. In 1998, at the Catholic in Mainz, he was shown. The jury of the Bavarian Film Prize specially invented a new category to honor Panzers language film.
Criticism
"It would have been easy to think about the rules of the religious man, the anachronistic and sometimes must also occur little socially modern Europeans, just funny. Wolfgang Panzer succeeds the unexpected: almost surreptitiously, this monk begins along with his awkward unbearable, his brave adherence to His commandments and rituals, the audience to grow with his childish piety and his astonished awakening in the world to my heart. Fried's odyssey becomes an educational trip as you have never seen them in the movies. Broken Silence is not good and also not a religious film - he tells the story of socialization. Much time and long distances requires the monk to find out from his self-centeredness. That he sometimes gives it a ridiculous figure, he begins to suspect; he takes it with dignity. "