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Beyond Silence' is one of those films that helps us escape our box of time and space and understand what it might be like to live in someone else's.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Beyond Silence
About life, love and the sound of snow.
1996 · 1h 49m · PG-13
Drama, Music
Directed by
Caroline Link
Overview
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
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