Should We Be Silent? (1926)

Original title

Dürfen wir schweigen?

Directed by

Richard Oswald

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A German silent drama from 1926. It deals with a social issue that characters must decide whether to speak up about. The story follows individuals facing a moral dilemma in a repressive society.

melancholicrestrainedsocially consciousstarkunderstatedthought-provokingsomberquietly intense

What happens

Should We Be Silent? (German: Dürfen wir schweigen?) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Walter Rilla and Henri De Vries. It was made at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Heinrich Richter-Berlin. The film exists only in fragmentary form. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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