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Basic facts

Original title Silence
Film type Short
Category Fiction
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Production country
Production company
Awards
Classification Allowed from age 7
Dialogue
Swedish release 1998-08-28

Titles

Original title
Swedish release title
Title for Swedish Video release

Crew

Director
Screenplay
Producer
Director of Photography
Music
Film Editor
Animation
Associate Producer
Film Commissioner
Re-recording Mixer
Painter
Paint
Other Crew
Narrator

Companies

Production Company Halo Productions Ltd.
Rockfilm AB
Advance allocations Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet
Channel Four Television Corp. (©)
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture/The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm) Folkets Bio AB 1998
Distributor in Sweden (Video) Föreningen Filmcentrum 1998 (bibliotek)
Other Company Cinesite (Europe) Ltd. (digital recording)

Swedish censorship / rating

Censorship number 135320
Date 1998-04-17
Classification Allowed from age 7
Original length 296 meters


Technical specifications

Aspect ratio Widescreen (unspecified)
Colour type Colour
Carrier type 35 mm
Frames per second 24
Length in metres 296 meter
Length in minutes 11 min
Reels 1 reels


Release dates

Festival showing 1998-04-18 Zita - Folkets Bio Stockholm Sweden 11 min
Release in Sweden 1998-08-28 Zita - Folkets Bio Stockholm Sweden 11 min
Video release 1998-10 Sweden 10 min
Festival showing 1999-02-05 Pustervik Gothenburg Sweden 10 min (Göteborg Film Festival)
1999-02-06 Pustervik Gothenburg Sweden 10 min (Göteborg Film Festival)
TV showing 1999-02-17 SVT2 Sweden

Soundtrack listing

Original title Through the Silence - Concert for Cello and Survivor
Composer Noa Ain
Lyrics Noa Ain
Tana Ross


Original title Santa Lucia
Composer Teodoro Cottrau (1850/51)
Lyrics Teodoro Cottrau (italiensk text 1850/51)
Arvid Rosén (svensk text "Natten går tunga fjät")
Sigrid Elmblad (svensk text "Sankta Lucia, ljusklara hägring")
Singer kör


Original title Konsert, piano, orkester, op. 16, a-moll
Composer Edvard Grieg (1868)


Original title Fate la Nonna
Musical Arrangement Noa Ain
Singer Gail Hadani


Awards

Festival Award Odense 1999 Grand Prix; t.m. Patterns /Irland/)
Oslo 1999 (Grand Prix; VIth Oslo Animation Festival)
Golden Hugo Chicago 1998 (Animated Short Category)
Festival Award Hiroshima 1998 (Special Jury Prize)
Melbourne 1998 (Best Animation)
Espinho 1998 (1:a priset i kat. kortfilm)
Ankara 1998 (2:a priset i kat. kortfilm)
Emden 1998 (2:a priset i kat. kortfilm)
San Francisco 1998 (Certificate of Merit)
Toronto 1998 (Honourable Mention)
Dresden 1998 (Special Jury Mention)
Matita 1998
Prize Oakland 1998 (Gold Apple Award)
Festival Award Bornholm 1998 (juryns specialpris; Balticum Film & TV Festival)
Kiruna 1998 (bästa nordiska kortfilm; t.m. Piken med saksen /Norge/; Nordisk Panorama)

Holdings Film

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

Element type Print
Item base Acetate
Carrier type 35 mm


Element type Print
Item base Acetate
Carrier type 35 mm


Element type Print
Item base Polyester
Carrier type 35 mm


Element type Duplicate positive
Carrier type 35 mm
Length 296


Element type Sound negative
Carrier type 35 mm
Length 296


Holdings Scripts

Script type Inspelningsmanus
Script title Through the silence (concerto for cello and survivor). The life of Tana Ross as told to Noa Ain. Lyrical text and music by Noa Ain.
Extent 17 s. Illustrationer (4 s.) ingår.
Language Swedish


Holdings Stills

Colour prints 1
Album No


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