i saw this film in the late eighty and it make me cry . both my parent be deaf so i saw many thing that remind me of my own life . i wasn not unhappy but i have to make some decision that my parent do not understand and some of them weren not understand by the hearing people . the scene with the undertaker who try to sell a very expensive coffin make me angry . the question of the father when he ask his daughter to describe what sound the sun make . she sign that the sun doesn not make any sound and he answer represent but they say that the sunbeam fall on the street . so it have to make a sound . those thing make me sad . but still i think it the best movie i have ever see . i hope to see it once again and i be sure that my emotion will be the same a 18 year ago . and who doesn not want to have a friend like mr. petrakis . what a wonderful man he be . so friendly and so patient and so very wise . a very and very and move and beautiful movie .