killing time

'SILENCE'

a film
by hank schachte
1998

Screened at Sundance 1999

(an excerpt from 'SILENCE'(pdf))

SYNOPSIS
Johnny lives on a reserve. He has a wife, two kids. He cuts shakes. He minds his business.

Then one day he kills his brother, and he won't say why. The police ask him, the Chief, the Band Council; the lawyer the court appoints asks him, the priest, the Judge; everybody asks him, and the more they ask him, the more he clams up.

Johnny has a reason, a dark reason he can't tell, for that would shame his dead brother, and bring shame on his young daughter Mary...




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