The Heart Must Be Silent

A solemn, tearful melodrama about self-sacrifice and quiet suffering, slow and earnest, with a heavy heart.

Directed by

Gustav Ucicky

Genres

Drama

Starring

Paula Wessely, Mathias Wieman, Werner Hinz

Overview

On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximiliane, but is silent about the ulcers on his hand and the severe pain they have caused. Maximiliane has gotten to know the widower Axel von Bonin and has fallen in love with him. But then she is diagnosed with incurable cancer. To spare Axel the inevitable grief over her impending death, she leaves him and dedicates what is left her life to medicine.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, romantic and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Grief, love, death, isolation

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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