Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2005 / Silentium / Austria 2004
Comedy crimer about a disshevelled detective investigating a Catholic school’s dark secrets.
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
116 min / Color, 35 mm
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
Sola Media GmbH
Osumstr. 17, D-70599, Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 711 479 3666
Fax: +49 711 479 2658
E-mail: [email protected]
Josef Hader
Actor
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