Stille Liebe/Amour Secret (2001)
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Synopsis of Stille Liebe/Amour Secret
A nun must overcome a severe hearing impairment in order to find her place in the outside world in this well-regarded Swiss drama. Antonia (Emmanuelle Laborit) is a deaf woman in her late twenties who lost her parents as a child. With nowhere to go, Antonia was taken in by Verena (Renate Becker), the mother superior at a Swiss convent where many of the sisters have taken a vow of silence. When she was young, Antonia felt comfortable in these surroundings and came to join the order, but as she's grown older she begins to wonder if she made the right choice. Antonia begins doing volunteer work at a homeless shelter, where she meets Mikas (Lars Otterstetd), a petty thief and onetime carnival performer who is also deaf. Mikas boldly expresses his desire for Antonia, and to her surprise, she finds herself responding to his advances; the two become romantically involved, but their affair comes to an abrupt end when Mikas dies in an altercation with the police. Shattered by the experience, Antonia decides to sever her ties with Verena and the convent and travels to the United States, where she applies to study at Gallaudet University, an internationally renowned college for the deaf and hearing impaired where she can remake her life among others like herself. Emmanuelle Laborit, who plays Antonia, is in fact deaf and studied at Gallaudet University; in 1994, she published a book about her experiences as a student called The Cry of the Gull. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Stille Liebe/Amour Secret
- Director(s):
- Christoph Schaub
- Writer(s):
- Peter Purtschert, Christoph Schaub
- Producer(s):
- Marcel Hoehn
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