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Beyond Silence

1996 · 109 min

A tender, quietly emotional coming-of-age story about music, family, and the distance between two worlds, told with warmth and restraint.

Tagline
About life, love and the sound of snow.
Overview
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • grief
  • music
Places
  • small town
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, music
Directed by
Caroline Link
Written by
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Starring
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Cinematography
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Runtime
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Country
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Languages
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