LETZTE SCHWEIGEN, DAS

Category: Feature Film
Director: Baran Bo Odar
Country: Germany
Year: 2010
Length: 111'
Production Status: completed

Summary

A bicycle found in a wheat field. A missing girl. Is history repeating itself? 23 years ago, a young girl named Pia was raped and murdered at this exact spot. Has the same thing happened now to 13-yearold Sinikka? Krischan, the retired police inspector who led the first investigation, is convinced that there's a connection between the two crimes. His efforts to capture the killer back then were unsuccessful; this time, he is determined to bring him to justice together with his younger colleague David. While Sinikka's parents are trapped in an agonizing period of waiting and uncertainty, their daughter's fate rips open old wounds in the heart of the first victim's mother. She, in turn, has the unsettling feeling that a visitor to her home - a nice young man, married with two children - is her daughter's killer. As the days go by, an unbearable heat lies over the town's modest homes like a bell jar. And behind the doors, once intact worlds begin to fall apart.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
In his strikingly commanding debut feature, Swiss-born Baran bo Odar confirms his status as one of the most promising and talented young directors of today. His exceptional directing skills and distinctly cinematic language give this screen adaptation of a bestselling novel its unmistakable signature. Mesmerizing performances of top European actors - headed by Ulrich Thomsen (THE CELEBRATION, BROTHERS), Sebastian Blomberg (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX), Katrin Sass (GOOD BYE, LENIN!) and Burghart Klaussner (THE WHITE RIBBON, THE EDUKATORS) - are central elements of this intense drama, reaching far beyond the crime story.