Archive of films Silentium / Silentium
Austria
2004, 116 min
Section:
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
Year: 2005
Comedy crimer about a disshevelled detective investigating a Catholic school’s dark secrets.
Synopsis
Theaters running Silentium will be anything but quiet once appreciative auds get a load of this Austrian comedy-crimer featuring a dissheveled detective, a Catholic school’s darkest secret and even darker humor. Brenner (Austrian comedian Josef Hader) is a grifting private dick in the Marlowe mold who’s a dead cat’s bounce away from hitting bottom. Working as a store detective, Brenner stumbles into the life of newly widowed Konstanze Dornhelm, society daughter of a Salzburg arts administrator. Konstanze’s late hubby was a vocal critic of the local Catholic seminary, due to his status as a sex-abuse survivor. She suspects he died from foul play — a suspicion already confirmed for viewers by his execution prior to the opening credits. While the outcome is a million miles away from the direction it first points in, script will suit conspiracy theorists.
Russell Edwards
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About the film
Color, 35 mm
Section: | Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! |
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Director: | Wolfgang Murnberger |
Screenplay: | Wolfgang Murnberger, Wolf Haas, Josef Hader |
Dir. of Photography: | Peter von Haller |
Music: | Sofa Surfers |
Editor: | Evi Romen |
Producer: | Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker |
Production: | Dor Film |
Cast: | Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Joachim Król |
Contact: | Sola Media GmbH |
www: | www.silentium.at |
Guests
Josef Hader
Actor