Movie Review: The Silence
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Length: 111 minutes
Release Date: Aug. 19, 2010
Directed by: Baran bo Odar
Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Stars: 3.5 out of 5
In present-day rural Germany, a young girl named Sinikka (Anna-Lena Klenke) goes missing in an otherwise picturesque wheat field. Her bike is found in the same position and area that another young girl\’s bike was found twenty-three years earlier. That girl, Pia (Helene Doppler), was raped and murdered by Peer (Ulrich Thomsen) as his friend Timo (Wotan Wilke MÖhring) looked on in horror and arousal. Timo splits town before Peer can swear him to silence, not to be seen again until Sinikka is reported missing.
Once news of her disappearance begins to surface, so do the people involved in Pia\’s case from the 1980s. Timo is now married with two children and has seemingly buried his secret so deeply that not even his wife or friends know what happened in that wheat field. He is sure Peer is behind Sinikka\’s disappearance but can\’t go to the police lest he be arrested for being an accomplice to Pia\’s murder. The cop who couldn\’t solve Pia\’s case, Krischan (Burghart Klau