Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit), 1971. Directed by Werner Herzog
A must-see for the sophisticated, bored, nihilist; for those too lazy to get up from the bed in the morning, for the “righteous” ones who judge people struck by fate, for those who feel that “society” does not understand them, for those who think they are born in the wrong period, region, culture or even the wrong type of universe; for the proud and beautiful, for beauty queens and those obsessed by germs and dirty people in the bus, for those who are empty of love and full of resentment.
We shall hear the angels, we shall see the whole sky all diamonds, we shall see how all earthly evil, all our sufferings, are drowned in the mercy that will fill the whole world. And our life will grow peaceful, tender, sweet as a caress. . . . In your life you haven’t known what joy was; but wait, Uncle Vanya, wait. . . . We shall rest.
(“Sonya”, final line in “Uncle Vanya”, by Anton Chekhov)
