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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m

Summary 13-year-old Sinikka is missing. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. Recently widowed detective David and his colleague Janna struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes with the help of Krischan, the retired investigator of the unresolved case. [Music Box Films]

Directed By: Baran bo Odar

Written By: Jan Costin Wagner, Baran bo Odar

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 58 m

The Silence

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.3
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Summary 13-year-old Sinikka is missing. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. Recently widowed detective David and his colleague Janna struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes with the help of Krischan, the retired investigator of the unresolved case. [Music Box Films]

Directed By: Baran bo Odar

Written By: Jan Costin Wagner, Baran bo Odar

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
3 Reviews
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100
Mar 7, 2013
The Silence is an exemplary German-language thriller, a complex and disturbing examination of guilt, violence and psychological torment that chills us to the core not once but two times over.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
85
Mar 8, 2013
What you'll carry away is the film's austere sympathy for the struggles of its benighted characters and its bleak conviction that justice and resolution mostly happen in movies.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.3
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42% Mixed
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42% Mixed
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8% Negative
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80
Mar 5, 2013
Making his feature debut, Swiss-born writer/director Baran bo Odar has turned Jan Costin Wagner’s 2007 novel The Silence into a taut, beautifully acted thriller.
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70
Mar 7, 2013
[Mr. Odar] allows the story to unfold at a deliberate pace, emphasizing the psychological nuances of the mystery rather than its procedural details, and using graceful wide-screen compositions and haunting sound design to create a compelling mood of menace, anxiety and sorrow.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 6, 2013
From moment to moment, The Silence can feel a bit pokey, as it divides its attention among a host of characters and never builds up much urgency about the fate of the second victim, whose body hasn’t been found.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 7, 2013
In the end The Silence is more like an intriguing work of misdirection than a great crime film, but it has a dreamlike and disturbing undertow you won’t soon forget, and Odar is unquestionably a director to watch.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 7, 2013
Director Baran bo Odar puts all this in the service of ghastly clichés. The rape of children has long since grown nauseatingly familiar, in books, in films, in each season of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Cine Plus, Lüthje Schneider Hörl Film, Das kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF), ARTE, Cine Plus Filmproduktion
Release Date Mar 8, 2013
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.das-letzte-schweigen.de/
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Las Palmas Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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