The Time of Silence

The Time of Silence

1970 · 14 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary

In Slavonia in the 1970ies it was still common practice to send old people to a decrepit house, usually on the edge of a forest, where they'd be left waiting for death. This is a document about one such wait for death, of an 86-year-old farmer Antun Babić from the Slavonian village Babina Greda.

Directed by Rudolf Sremec

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