It's All So Quiet

Boven is het stil

Helmer, a single farmer in his fifties, lives with his aged, bedridden father in the Dutch countryside. The routine of his working days changed by the visits of milk collector Johan, a man of his own age for whom Helmer holds a secret fascination, but also by the arrival of an adolescent farmhand who comes to help him out at work in the farm. The genealogy and inescapable nature of fragile masculinity, through a quiet female take.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Nanouk Leopold

Script: Nanouk Leopold, based on the novel of the same title by Gerbrand Bakker

Cinematography: Frank van den Eeden

Editing: Katharina Wartena

Sound: Andreas Hildebrandt

Music: Paul M. van Brugge

Actors: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck, Martijn Lakemeier, Lies Visschedijk

Production: Circe Films, N279 Entertainment

Producers: Stienette Bosklopper, Els Vandevorst

Co-production: Coin Film, VPRO Television

Co-producers: Herbert Schwering

Costumes: Manon Blom, Ute Paffendorf

Executive producer: Elsje de Bruin

Camera: Bart Bleuze

Make Up: Heike Ersfeld, Rob Hillenbrink, Marly van de Wardt

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Netherlands, Germany

Production Year: 2013

Duration: 93΄

Contact: Playtime, info@playtime.group

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and from the Dutch Film and Television Academy. Her debut Îles Flottantes was selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition in 2001. Guernsey was selected for the Quinzaine at Cannes in 2005. Wolfsbergen premiered at the Forum of the Berlinale 2007 and was selected for TIFF in the same year. Brownian Movement premiered in Toronto in 2010 and had its European premiere at the Forum in Berlin in 2011. In 2013 It’s All So Quiet was the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama Special. In 2018 Cobain had its world premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation section. Nanouk became a member of the Society of the Arts of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2017 she directed her first play, From the Life of the Marionettes, for the prestigious Amsterdam theatre group ITA and in 2019 The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Nanouk also makes video installations together with visual artist Daan Emmen. Early 2021 they finished an installation for the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam. The same year she made her opera debut with Der Zwerg by Zemlinsky for the Dutch National Opera. She also directed Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch in 2021. With Whitetail, Leopold makes her highly anticipated return to the silver screen.