Silent Tongue
- Richard Harris: Prescott Roe
- River Phoenix: Talbot Roe
- Alan Bates: Eamon McCree
- Dermot Mulroney: Reeves McCree
- Jeri Arredondo: Velada McCree
- Sheila Tousey: Awbonnie McCree / Ghost
- Tantoo Cardinal: Silent Tongue
- Bill Irwin: comedian
- David Shiner: The Serious
- Billy Beck: The Petrified
Silent Tongue ( Original title: Silent Tongue ), also known as Silent Tongue - Revenge of the Ghost, directed a feature film in 1994 in the film drama led Sam Shepard, who also wrote the screenplay. . Mire and the French Belbo Films and Canal produced the Western.
Action
Night after night sitting Talbot Roe in the prairie campfire and watching over the corpse of his wife Awbonnie, which was laid out by him in a treetop. She died at the miscarriage of their common child. The only thing he feels is sorrow and madness.
In the opening sequence, he shoots an eagle, which he uproots the wings and thus adorns the decaying body of his wife. He likes his wife does not let go, not even when one night a demon rising from her and threatened him. Terrified of it all rides Talbot's father through the country and trying to find a new wife for his son. He found what he is in a fraudulent Ringmaster, whose daughter is the main attraction of the show. That it is not the first meeting between the two men is decrypted in the form of flashbacks throughout the film.
Background
The movie was filmed in 1991, but came only in 1994 in the cinemas. It was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico. He is the last released movie with River Phoenix and came to his death in 1993 in the cinemas.
Reception
The film was launched on 1 February 1994 only three American cinema, where he played a total of approximately $ 60,000. In German cinemas Silent tongue came on 3 November of the same year.
Critics were divided on Silent tongue. Rita Kempley compared the film in the Washington Post on 15 April 1994 with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. The film is a fascinating blend of Greek, Roman, Irish and uramerikanischer mythology, elegant revisionism and traditional theater. Peter Traves praised in Rolling Stone, River Phoenix was an exceptionally talented actor and would deliver one of his most ambitious achievements in Silent Tongue. He called Silent tongue as mesmerizing mess. In Germany the lexicon of international film judged very positively: "A thematically and formally unusual, complex drama about guilt and atonement, the motives of the Indian film with a mythical ghost story and themes of classic American tragedy and Shakespeare's history plays linking. " Appearance and Director are impressive; so were possible compaction of all its elements to " radical consistent manner " to a " dark reflection on the lostness of the people. "