DER REST IST SCHWEIGEN (Programme 2019)

DER REST IST SCHWEIGEN (“THE REST IS SILENCE”)

Federal Republic of Germany 1959 · 103 min · DF · 35 mm · FSK 12 (PG12)

D: Helmut Käutner S: Helmut Käutner based on a model by Shakespeare

C: Igor Oberberg Cast: Hardy Kruger, Peter van Eyck, Ingrid Andree amongst others

Shakespeare's Hamlet in an interpretation by Helmut Käutner, who transports the play

to the Ruhr area in 1959 during the time of the German economic miracle.

Käutner subtly brings to light subjects of repression and a seemingly de-nazified society. John H. Claudius returns from the USA as the heir of the Claudius steelworks after the death of his father. In doubt about the alleged cause of death and tormented by his suspicion that his stepfather and uncle Paul is his father’s murderer, he stages the murder with the help of a ballet ensemble. The film could only be produced because of the efforts of the directors Harald Braun, Helmut Käutner and Wolfgang Staudte, who founded the production company Freie Film Produktion GmbH in Hamburg from 1958 to 1960, under which the production KIRMES (1960) was created by Staudte. The exterior shots were taken in Dusseldorf-Lohausen, Oberhausen and London.

Preview:

INS GRAB KANN MAN NICHTS MITNEHMEN (“YOU CANNOT TAKE ANYTHING TO THE GRAVE WITH YOU”)

D 1941 · 12 min · DF · 35 mm · FSK 18 (Rated R)

D: Wolfgang Staudte S: Wolfgang Staudte based on a model by Arkady Avercenko

C: Günther L. Arko Cast: Carl-Heinz Schroth, Carl Günther, Martha Ziegler amongst others

A heartbroken man decides to commit suicide. A friend can manage to dissuade him with a trick. This short film was originally created for internal use in the studio of the production company Tobis in order to promote young talent but was later showed in German cinemas.

The Film Museum shows the first version of this short film.

Black Box, Cinema in the Film Museum,

Schulstrasse 4, 40213 Dusseldorf

Normal price € 7, Discount tickets € 5