Die Kunst der Stille - Marcel Marceaus Geheimnis

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The Art of Silence is a documentary directed by Maurizius Staerkle-Drux, whose deaf father Christoph Staerkle is himself a mime influenced by Marcel Marceau. His last film appearances included small roles in Klaus Kinski's Paganini (1989) and Joseph's Gift (1998). Die Kunst der Stille” ist ein Dokumentarfilm über den verstorbenen Großmeister der Pantomime – Marcel Marceau. In 1944 Marcel's father was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed.

As a grandmaster of the pantomime, Marcel Marceau portrayed the awkwardness of man and conveyed the unspeakable about "cry of silence.The structure of the film is incredible and really highlights just how much skill is actually involved in assembling an effective documentary. In 1995, pop megastar Michael Jackson, who had been friends with Marceau for nearly 20 years, planned a concert together with him for HBO, but the concert was canceled after Jackson was hospitalized for exhaustion during rehearsals. I used to sneak in and sit in the audience and watch how he would defy the laws of gravity like he was stepping on air.

The Art of Silence' sheds new light on his life and unique art form, which his family and companions keep alive to this day. It was the intellectual minority who knew of him until he first toured the United States in 1955 and 1956, close on the heels of his North American debut at the Stratford Festival of Canada. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work. In November 1998, President Jacques Chirac made Marceau a grand officer of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Owing to Marceau's fluency in English, French, and German, he worked as a liaison officer with General George Patton's Third Army. In 2000, Marceau brought his full mime company to New York City to present his new melodrama, The Bowler Hat, previously seen in Paris, London, Tokyo, Taipei, Caracas, Santo Domingo, Valencia (Venezuela), and Munich. Marcel Marceau is such an interesting figure, and this film attempts to pursue so many interesting threads of his life: his time in the French resistance rescuing children from the Nazis, his performance years, his family, his legacy; his family's attempts to stage a show about him, mine as a therapeutic tool, the directors relationship with his father via Marcel Marceau. The outfit signified life's fragility, and Bip became his alter ego, just as the " Little Tramp" had become Charlie Chaplin's.

From 1959 to 1960, a retrospective of his mimodramas, including The Overcoat by Gogol, ran for a full year at the Amibigu Théâtre in Paris.Two years after 2020’s Resistance depicted a fictionalized look at Marcel Marceau’s participation in the French resistance, The Art of Silenced is being pegged as the first documentary look at Marceau’s career, with his time in the war paving the way for how he would develop as a mime.