The last silence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The last silence |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Baran bo Odar |
| script | Baran bo Odar |
| production | Frank Evers, Jantje Friese, Maren Lüthje, Florian Schneider, Jörg Schulze |
| music |
Michael Kamm , Kris Steininger |
| camera | Nikolaus Summerer |
| cut | Robert Rzesacz |
| occupation | |
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The Last Silence is a German feature film from 2010 . It is based on a thriller by Jan Costin Wagner and is the second full-length film by director and screenwriter Baran bo Odar after his diploma film Unter der Sonne .
action
In the shimmering summer of 1986, eleven-year-old Pia is raped and murdered near a small town. Her bike ends up in a cornfield, and her body is later found in a lake. The perpetrator Peer Sommer, a caretaker, is accompanied by the younger student Timo, who is both a witness and an accomplice. They both met previously because of their pedophile tendencies. After the fact, Timo leaves town without saying goodbye, marries Julia and takes her family name.
23 years later, the same city, different people: The Weghamm family has an argument, 13-year-old Sinikka goes to the fair instead of sports. She does not return. The concerned parents turn to the police and thus to David Jahn, a young detective. A short time later, Sinikka's bicycle was found in the same place in the fields as it was in the 1986 crime.
The search is intensified, the hope of finding the girl alive is low. The Weghamm parents become estranged, and Jahn meets the mother of the girl who was murdered in 1986. In the meantime, Timo Friedrich, now an established architect and himself a family man, is returning. He has heard of the fact in the media, the repressed past is now catching up with him.
He looks for the perpetrator from back then. The older one tries to pick up where the relationship between the two ended, but the younger one withdraws and is disgusted, even with himself. He struggles with himself, his self-confidence gives way to a previous insecurity.
Then the body of the missing girl is found. The police are hot on the heels of the perpetrator, the pregnant policewoman glasses is even sitting in his living room to question him about a car he used to drive. He lurks, a knife at hand, but she only senses suspicion against him after leaving the apartment. The younger one, however, in the meantime kills himself in speechless despair: he drowns himself in his car in the lake. The police have their perpetrator, they don't suspect a second one.
The still desolate Jahn harbors strong doubts and rebels. His theory is that at that time there was a second party to the crime, to whom the first now wanted to send a signal with the new crime, so as to call him back. Jahn is not believed. Meanwhile, the Weghamm parents seek solace in each other again and the mother of the girl who was killed in 1986 breaks off the aimless relationship that she had started with an investigator involved in the case, who has since retired.
The last shot of the film shows Peer Sommer as a sad and lonely man in his small apartment, who wanted to send a message with his deed and who has now lost his only confidante with Timo Friedrich's suicide, but also gets away with it.
background
The film was shot in 2009 with a budget of 2.3 million euros.
The location of the novel is Finland , the film takes place in a fictional city in Germany.
reception
Jan Schulz-Ojala judged in the Die Zeit “ The last silence tells a dark story from Somewhere Germany. The film has a little too much of everything. […] Odar tells the story, based on a detective novel by Jan Costin Wagner, in an elegantly slow manner, less interested in the psychology of the perpetrators than in the milieu in which loss and grief spread. "
TV Spielfilm found the film “very gripping despite the somewhat intrusive music and other weaknesses”.
The film critic Oliver Baumgarten particularly emphasized the achievements of the actors: Möhring convinced “with a great game”, Ulrich Thomsen “made his pedophile murderer terrifyingly real” and Katrin Saß, “whose grieving mother is almost the only figure able to gain strength” - “So the whole ensemble makes a significant contribution to the fact that the film is captivating not as a mere Whodunnit, but primarily as a psychological study. And as such, Das last Schweigen clearly stands out thanks to its very personal creative handwriting. "
Rüdiger Suchsland from the film service viewed the film rather critically: “In the end, you don't know what the film wants. He also lacks the pay-off: Neither really hard things are offered on the visual level, nor real thriller suspense, nor analytical added value in the sense of insights into the universally human or into social contexts. Something like that, at least a hint, can be expected of a debut film. [...] The many promising approaches come to nothing, because at the decisive moment there is a lack of artistic radicalism, the courage to take the side of one's own ideas. "
Web links
- The Silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about the film on the website of the small television game at ZDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Last Silence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 464 K).
- ↑ Gloomy feelings, lonely people , zeitonline.de, accessed on January 21, 2016
- ↑ TV feature film ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 22, 2016
- ↑ Film review by Oliver Baumgarten , accessed on January 22, 2016
- ^ Review by Rüdiger Suchsland , accessed on January 22, 2016
