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The Silence

2010 · 118 min

A slow, suffocating plunge into guilt and grief, where quiet procedural detail and fractured timelines leave a lingering chill.

Directed by
Baran bo Odar
Genres
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass
Overview
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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Directed by
Baran bo Odar
Genres
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • grief
  • obsession
  • crime
  • memory
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour0
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Genres
crime, thriller, drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass, Sebastian Blomberg, Burghart Klaußner, Oliver Stokowski, Karoline Eichhorn, Jule Böwe
Cinematography
Nikolaus Summerer
Runtime
118 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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