The Silent Friend

Name: The Silent Friend
Start: 2026-08-01T20:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-01T22:57:00+02:00
Location: Bio Central

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Silent Friend

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took place · 1 Aug 2026

Bio Central, Hradec Králové

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In the heart of a botanical garden in a German university town stands a majestic ginkgo tree - an ancient witness to three epochs and three human destinies seeking freedom and connection with the living heart of the garden.

In 2020, beneath its crown, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong begins an unexpected experiment. Half a century earlier, a young man undergoes transformation through a simple bond with a plant. And in 1908, the first female student of that university discovers incredible patterns of the universe through subtle photographs.

Ildikó Enyedi, one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema, returns with a cinematic meditation that, through the testimony of the ginkgo, poses the simplest question: what does it mean to be human and truly belong somewhere?

About the venue: Bio Central

Bio Central is the last brick-and-mortar cinema in Hradec Králové, operating since 1929 under various names (Bio Slavie, Kino Jas, Kino Centrál). After a long break it reopened in December 2012. The large hall seats 384, the small hall 40. The programme covers mainstream and art-house films, live broadcasts of opera, theatre and ballet, a film club, and annual festivals such as Jeden svět, Dny evropského filmu and Cinema Open. In summer it also runs an open-air cinema at the Gayer Barracks.

třída Karla IV. 774, 500 02 Hradec Králové Get directions

About: Sylvester Groth

Sylvester Groth is a German actor with a career spanning theatre and film. He gained wide international recognition playing Joseph Goebbels in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), and has since appeared in numerous German stage and television productions.

About: Léa Seydouxová

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [lea sɛdu]; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2009, she won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Seydoux was appointed a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Dame of the National Order of Merit.

About: Rainer Bock

After graduating from high school, Rainer Bock ran a café in his hometown, which also had a cabaret programme. After studying acting at a private acting school in Kiel, he made his debut as a theater actor on the stages of the state capital of Kiel in 1982. He came to Heidelberg and the National Theater Mannheim via the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater. From 1995 to 2001 he had an engagement at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Until 2011 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Bock often appears in supporting roles, including his initially rare appearances in film and television. The part of the doctor in Michael Haneke's award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize. In 2011 he was represented at the Berlinale with four films. Bock is also active as an audio book speaker.

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