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The Silent Pacific (1984)
Directed by Digna Sinke
Drama · 1h 45m
Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Marian (Josee Ruiter). Marian is a journalist who has been working in Latin America and who arrives home just after her father dies to find out that the man she had married for purely political reasons might be deported because the authorities found out he was not living with her. Meanwhile, Marian is upset that her mother and sister are keeping her mentally handicapped brother in an institution, and she goes there to get him released into her custody -- a mistake it turns out. He is actually worse off with her, and vice-versa. On top of everything, Marian cannot break away from the depression she feels over a tragic incident that happened while she was in Latin America -- and anything she does is colored by that moment from the past. These burdens become almost too much to bear, both for Marian and the viewers.
Cast
Josse De Pauw
Emil Winters
Johan Leysen
Jan Verstraete
Julien Schoenaerts
Frits Rosmeyer
Andrea Domburg
Emilia Winters
Josée Ruiter
Marian Winters
Moniek Kramer
Rita Winters
Reinout Bussemaker
Begeleider Tehuis
Elsje de Wijn
Receptioniste
Peter Tuinman
agent
Crew
- Director
- Digna Sinke
- Writer
- Annemarie Van de Putte
- Editor
- Jan Wouter van Reijen
- Producer
- Marion Hänsel, Hans Klap
Details
- Original title
- De stille Oceaan
- Release date
- 1984-03-15
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- NL
- Spoken languages
- Dutch, Spanish
- Countries
- Belgium, Netherlands
- Production
- De Eerste Amsterdamse Filmassociatie Van 1980 B.V., Man’s Films S.P.R.L.