Der stille Ozean (1983)

• 70%
• 1983
• Drame
• Téléfilm
• Hanno Pöschl
• Marie-France Pisier
• Johannes Thanheiser

Cinematographer turned directeur (Xaver Schwarzenberger) has filmed a small, wintry story of human epic proportions. A young doctor (Hanno Poeschi) exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a la mort. Once at the village, hiver, jeux and against that harsh and poetic toile de fond a rabies épidémie de balayages through the population. The doctor convinces people, he is a biologist but then he treats someone demander and gives his real profession away. As the epidemic relances questions of life and death, the doctor's mind is brought back to the death that caused his exile and he considers suicide for awhile. The same issues come up again when an exaspéré villager goes on a killing spree and in turn, is hunted by the citizens. Faced with the prevalence of death all around him, the doctor starts to gain some perspective on the personal experience that brought him here in the first place.