Das Schweigen des Dichters (1987)

• 73%
• 1987
• Drama
• Película de TV

This drama comes from one of Germany's greatest contemporary directores, Peter Lilienthal; and is one of the few to be released outside of the country. It is the story of an Israeli poeta's struggle to create a inhospitable environment. The poet and is suffering from severe writer's block and much of the film center upon the reasons why. Among those reasons is a brother ante during the Yom Kippur Era, the drawn out illness and subsequent death of his wife and the simpleton son she bore before she became ill. Most of the time the poet blames his son for his inability to write; the father resents having to care for him night and day but he refuses to institutionalize the lad.