Silent Sonata
Director : Janez Burger
Country : Slovenia
Release Date : 2010
Duration : 77 mins
Language : No dialogue
Subtitles : No
A man stays alone with his children in a half-demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering circus caravan stops by the house. They bring along the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realise that death does not exist?
“A Fellini-esque silent fable which tackles the horrors of war with a refreshing sense of the absurd.” (Simon Crook – Empire Magazine)