The Boy Who Stopped Talking

The Boy Who Stopped Talking or De Jongen Die niet meer Praatte is a 1996 Dutch film directed by Ben Sombogaart.

De Jongen Die niet meer Praatte
Directed byBen Sombogaart
Written byLou Brouwers
Release date
10 October 1996
Running time
108 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch, Kurdish

Cast

  • Erçan Orhan, Mohammed Akkus (Memo)
  • Halsho Hussain, Mustafa
  • Brader Musiki, Hüsnü Akkus
  • Husna Killi, Fatma Akkus
  • Louis Ates, Jeroen Ligthart
  • Rick van Gastel, Thomas
  • Heleen Hummelen, Inge Smeets
  • Peter Bolhuis, Vader Jeroen
  • Han Kerkhoffs, Chauffeur school bus
  • Shielan Muhammad, Rojda
  • Han Oldigs, Arts
  • Lava Sulayman, Zin Akkus
  • Cecil Toksöz, Kemal Mecan

Synopsis

Memo is a 9-year old Kurdish boy. He lives in Eastern Turkey together with his little sister and mother. He is very happy there. His father works in the Netherlands. In the area where Memo lives, war is on the horizon. His father decides to bring his family to the Netherlands. Memo doesn't want to, but nobody asked him anything. From then on, he decides not to talk anymore.

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gollark: I do not actually know quantum mechanics in much detail.
gollark: Polysyllabic designations are extremely practical for perplexing the vocabularistically limited.
gollark: Yes, that seems reasonable.
gollark: I was saying that probability distributions generally could look like lots of things. I don't know about what wavefunctions look like.


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