Silent Sonata (2011)

Original title

Circus Fantasticus

Directed by

Janez Burger

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Slovenia

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

U

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family hiding in a remote house during a war is disrupted when a circus troupe arrives. The film has no spoken dialogue and follows the clash between survival and spectacle.

wordlessbleakslow-burnvisually starkintensemelancholicdreamlikewar-torn

What happens

Silent Sonata (Slovene: Circus Fantasticus) is a 2011 Slovenian war drama film directed by Janez Burger and has no dialogue. The main producers are the Slovene Stara Gara and the Irish Fastnet Films. Silent Sonata is the first official Slovene-Irish-Swedish-Finnish co-production and was shot in 35 days in Slovenia and Ireland. The world premiere took place on the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2011. The production crew included members from at least 18 countries. The film's original title was Circus Fantasticus, but only in Slovenia, as it is distributed under its original title. The film was selected as the Slovenian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, however, the Society of Slovene filmmakers (Društvo slovenskih filmskih ustvarjalcev, DSFU) neglected to officially submit the entry in time because of a misunderstanding within the organization, so it wasn't included in the final list of entries. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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