Elk jaar herdenkt Nederland op 4 mei zijn oorlogsslachtoffers. Een uniek moment tijdens dit jaarlijks terugkerende ritueel is de twee minuten stilte. Voor 2 minuten stilte a.u.b. legde filmmaakster Heddy Honigman in de ochtend en de middag van vierde mei aan verschillende mensen de vraag voor wat deze dag voor hen betekent.
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- 2 Minutes Silence, Please
Over the course of a single day, from 8 AM to 8 PM, twelve film crews followed several men and women for whom Memorial Day is unavoidable. Each interview is cut with long silences, during which the suffering wrinkled faces bring back memories of the unspeakable days of youth lived in 1940, when the Netherlands were invaded by the German army, and Dutch Jews were taken away from their families and friends, to a certain death elsewhere. The document closes on the parade to the Memorial Monument, and the cameras show us again - lost in the mass of people - the handful of faces whose biographies one knows by then, thus multiplying by hundreds and thousands the force of the words and silent, hidden emotions imprinted on those human faces.
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