What the Night Speaks – a Story

(1987)

Genres: Drama

Year: 1987

Runtime: 79 мин

Country: Austria

Director: Hans Scheugl

Cast: Elfriede Jelinek, Christine Frankowicz, Walter Häuselmayer, Walter Rohrhofer, Klaus Wittmann, Irmgard Maria Sohm

Plot

Two women communicate in a language of art, working men in a pub speak in their Viennese idiom, patients of a psychiatric hospital arrive at speech through improvisation – all these diverging portrayals do not merge into one another but communicate by their proximity.