'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'
Hardy Krüger | John H. Claudius |
Peter van Eyck | Paul Claudius |
Ingrid Andree | Fee von Pohl |
Adelheid Seeck | Gertrud Claudius |
Rudolf Forster | Dr. von Pohl |
Boy Gobert | Mike R. Krantz |
Heinz Drache | Herbert von Pohl |
Charles Regnier | Kriminalrat Fortner |
Werner Schumacher | Werksfahrer |
Siegfried Schürenberg | Johannes Claudius |
Balduin Baas | Sekretär |
Robert Meyn | Dr. Voltman |