Name: Echoes of Silence
Released: 1965
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Cast: Miguel Chacour, Viraj Amonsin, Jean-françois Gobbi, Stasia Gelber, Astrid Spiegel

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jan 1965

Premiere Information

New York opening: 9 Feb 1965

Distribution Company

Film-Makers' Distribution Center

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 14m

Synopsis

Miguel is an aimless and lonely young man who wanders through New York City (Pennsylvania Station, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Times Square) searching for a young woman who would be willing to spend a few hours with him. Occasionally, such a woman does go with him to his dismal Greenwich Village apartment, but, through lack of physical desire and ineptitude the seduction usually ends in failure. Equally empty are the lives of his friends and neighbors: Astrid, a lesbian, haunts the bars on MacDougal Street; Stasia, her friend, picks up a fat out-of-towner in the hope of making a few dollars; Viraj and Robert return home after a frustrating night and begin a homosexual affair. At night these people return to the streets. With nowhere else to go, Miguel stands alone on 42d Street staring at the billboards, cluttered window displays, crowded subway entrances, sidewalk evangelists, and other faces as empty as his own.