How seriously Andrew Garfiled and Adam Driver took the role in Martin Scorcese's film is evidenced by the fact that they prepared for the role for a whole year and spent a week in Wales in complete silence, in order to get the most out of the Jesuit missionaries Rodrigues and Garrpa. They were sent to Japan during the time of the "hidden Christians", just after the suppression of the Catholic revolution on Shimabara in the 17th century, where they must find their missing mentor, Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson).
About a movie based on a novel Silence by the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo and speaks on the persecution of the Portuguese Jesuits, who worked in Japan - Cankar's publishing house published the novel translated by Iztok Ilca in 2009 - is the director of films Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Double Penetration and The Wolf of Wall Street dreamed for almost three decades.
He has already acquired the copyright for the film adaptation of Endo's novel 28 years ago. It is one of his longest films, as it lasts quite a while 159 minutes.
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He experienced the first official screening in the Vatican. He was also among the spectators Pope Francis. Scorsese is no stranger to films with religious themes. Already in 1988, he made a film The Last Temptation of Christ with Willem Dafoe. It was based on the 1951 book of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis.
Gallery - highlights from the film Silence (Silence, 2016):
Historical drama
Shut up
(Silence, USA, 2016)
Direction: Martin Scorsese. They play: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds.
In the cinema from February 9, 2016.
