The Rest Is Silence (1959)

Original title

Der Rest ist Schweigen

Directed by

Helmut Käutner

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy industrialist family in postwar West Germany is torn apart when the patriarch dies under suspicious circumstances. His son investigates, uncovering secrets and betrayals that echo the Hamlet story.

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What happens

The Rest Is Silence (German: Der Rest ist Schweigen) is a 1959 West German crime film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hardy Krüger, Peter van Eyck and Ingrid Andree. The plot is inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet, with the setting shifted to postwar West Germany during the Economic Miracle. It was made at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in Oberhausen and in the Lohausen district of Düsseldorf. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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