IDFA 1997
Close to Silence
Close to Silence
Krysztof Rzaczynski, Jacek Knopp
Poland
1996
12 min
n.a.
KRAJOBAZ PRED CISZA gives a subdued impression of the hamlet of Suchodoly in the Polish lake district Muzarian. Or better: the film shows what is left of it. A stork keeps watch on a ramshackle roof. Bees are flying undisturbed across empty rooms without someone chasing them away. There is a rusty pan on the stove and in the washing room some forgotten pegs are on the clothes line. Ghost town Suchodoly. In the nineteenth century the first people settled here. Today, the village has exactly one inhabitant left.
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