At the end of the silence (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | At the end of the silence |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Erhard Riedlsperger |
| script | Charlotte Link |
| production | Ursula Vossen |
| music | Georg Kleinebreil |
| camera | Frank Bruhne |
| cut | Christine Boock |
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At the end of the silence is a German thriller by Erhard Riedlsperger from 2006. The television film is a film adaptation of the 2003 novel of the same name by Charlotte Link , who also wrote the screenplay.
action
Alexander Hoffmann travels to Stansbury in South West England with his fiancée Jessica Wahlberg and his child Ricarda from their first marriage . They are housed in the local mansion of Patricia Roth, who inherited it from her uncle. Alexander spends his vacation there at regular intervals with his two former classmates Leon Roth and Tim Burkhard. As they all enter the property together, a man named Phillip Bowen storms past them out of the house. He stayed there without permission.
Jessica quickly notices that the practicing lawyer Leon with his wife Patricia and the psychiatrist Tim with his wife Evelin and Alexander are a conspiratorial community with which something is wrong. Evelin is very withdrawn and has a hand injury, a fourth person was torn off from a group picture from college days and Alexander suddenly suffers from bad nightmares. One day, outside of the property, she becomes more closely acquainted with Phillip Bowen, who turns up a little later in the manor house and registers ownership claims as an illegitimate child. Patricia throws him out angrily. However, Jessica takes him in protection, whereupon Patricia threatens her never to argue against the group. Jessica is also in closer contact with Evelin and suspects that she has serious problems. At dinner Patricia reads illegally from Ricarda's diary, in which she dreams of murdering everyone out of hatred. In addition, Jessica finds the torn off part of the photo in Alexander's wallet, which shows an inconspicuous young person.
The next day Jessica discovers the bodies of Patricia, Tim and Alexander after a walk. She finds the whimpering Evelin, who can't remember anything, stunned, while Ricarda has disappeared. Leon is out and about in town. The summoned police, led by Superintendent Norman, find that Tim is still alive and are hoping for more information after he has woken from his coma. The first suspicions fall on Phillip Bowen, who however has an alibi, and Ricarda, who slept in the barn. But Jessica does her own research about the unknown boy in the photo, as she hopes it will provide important information. It turns out that Leon, Tim and Alexander used to use drugs and also forced their college friend Marc Morgan to do so, who died from it. This secret has welded the group together to this day. It also becomes clear that Evelin was badly mistreated by Tim, which leads to her being arrested as the main suspect. Tim dies in the meantime.
The police release Evelin for lack of evidence, also because Bowen's alibi turns out to be false. When Jessica re-enters the mansion, she discovers traces of blood and the injured Phillip Bowen. He was attacked by Evelin. It turns out that Evelin is mentally ill and has committed all murders out of revenge. She is taken away in a straitjacket .
criticism
"Superficial (television) entertainment based on a hit novel by Charlotte Link, which only slightly modified the relevant role models."
"The bestseller adaptation turned out to be an unpleasant mix of pilcher and wooden wannabe."
Web links
- At the end of silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- At the end of the silence in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ At the end of the silence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique of TV feature film