The Silence
2010 · Movie · 118 min · ★ 6.5 · 80% critics
A 13-year-old disappears on a hot summer night, and her bicycle turns up at the exact spot of a decades-old killing. The investigation across two time periods forces people tied to the original case to confront what they’ve long tried to keep buried.
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Details
- Original title
- Das letzte Schweigen
- Years
- 2010
- Release date
- 2010-08-19
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 80/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (151 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy The Silence if you want a dark, grieving-driven crime thriller with an unsettling, meditative pace and lingering mystery; Not for you if you need fast whodunit thrills like In the Fade or prefer lighter suspense like Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith.
Pros: moody crime drama; eerie summer atmosphere; gripping psychological tension | Cons: very slow pacing; frustrating investigation; hard-to-like subject matter
Themes
- rape
- germany
- child molester
Cast & crew
Ulrich Thomsen
as Peer Sommer
Wotan Wilke Möhring
as Timo Friedrich
Katrin Sass
as Elena Lange
Sebastian Blomberg
as David Jahn
Burghart Klaußner
as Krischan Mittich
Oliver Stokowski
as Matthias Grimmer
Karoline Eichhorn
as Ruth Weghamm
Jule Böwe
as Jana Gläser
Roeland Wiesnekker
as Karl Weghamm
Claudia Michelsen
as Julia Friedrich
Directed by Baran bo Odar