The Silent Friend

Name: The Silent Friend
Start: 2026-08-19T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-01T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Biograf Kotva

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Silent Friend

147 min · U · full info →

took place · 19 Aug 2026

Biograf Kotva, České Budějovice 7

cinema culture

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What if plants observed us the same way we observe them? The film is a meditative exploration of communication between people and between humans and nature.

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About the venue: Biograf Kotva

Biograf Kotva on Lidická třída is the last classic single-screen cinema in České Budějovice. The building was completed in 1928 to a design by architect Karel Chochola for the Sokol II gymnastics association, and has gone through several name changes since. Today it screens in digital 3D with Dolby Atmos sound and co-organises festivals such as Jeden svět, Tady Vary and the French Film Festival. The attached café with a garden terrace also hosts exhibitions and small concerts.

Lidická 2110, 370 01 České Budějovice 7 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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