MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Up 6,185 this week

Silentium (2004)

7.4
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 7.4/10 from 1,918 users  
Reviews: 6 user | 20 critic

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.

Writers:

(screenplay), (screenplay), 2 more credits »
0Check in
0Share...

Related News

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 85 titles created 9 months ago
 
a list of 12 titles created 4 days ago
 
a list of 387 titles created 9 months ago
 
a list of 20 titles created 04 Sep 2011
 
a list of 362 titles created 13 Mar 2012
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Silentium (2004)

Silentium (2004) on IMDb 7.4/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Silentium.
1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards »
Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

The Bone Man (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

Private Investigator Brenner is handling a case at the grill-station "Löschenkohl". There he finds - besides some chicken - also other meat...that doesn't belong in a good meal.

Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Stars: Josef Hader, Josef Bierbichler, Birgit Minichmayr
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.7/10 X  

A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons
Crime | Drama | Mystery
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  

A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.

Director: Paul McGuigan
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9/10 X  

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
Hannibal (2001)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  

Hannibal returns to America and attempts to make contact with disgraced Agent Starling and survive a vengeful victim's plan.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
M (1931)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney
Red Dragon (2002)
Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer; aiding him is imprisoned criminal genius Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.

Director: Brett Ratner
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Snatch. (2000)
Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

Director: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt
Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

Director: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Josef Hader ...
...
Joachim Król ...
Sportpräfekt Fitz
Maria Köstlinger ...
Konstanze Dornhelm
Udo Samel ...
Festspielpräsident
Jürgen Tarrach ...
Opernsänger
...
Di Ding
Georg Friedrich ...
Hausmeister Josef
Anne Bennent ...
Apothekerin
Luka Omoto ...
Jungfrau
...
Inspektor Stronegger
Joachim Bißmeier ...
Regens
...
Killer Max
Wolfgang S. Zechmayer ...
Killer Moritz
Christoph Schlingensief ...
Opernregisseur
Edit

Storyline

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.

Add Full Plot | Add Synopsis

Genres:

Crime | Thriller

Edit

Details

Official Sites:

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

24 September 2004 (Austria)  »

Also Known As:

Orkos siopis  »

Filming Locations:


Box Office

Budget:

€3,000,000 (estimated)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

In one scene Brenner puts some empty beer boxes in piles to escape a cellar. Stiegl-beer is produced in Salzburg, where the movie is set, and its company logo are red stairs, which look just like the stairs Brenner builds out of the boxes. See more »

Goofs

While the story is set in the summer, in the last scene, when the car leaves Salzburg, some snow can be seen on the roofs of the houses surrounding the road. See more »

Connections

References North by Northwest (1959) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Splendid black comedy
26 July 2005 | by (Bamberg, Germany) – See all my reviews

I really like Austrian humor. Many Austrian comedians display a certain kind of self irony modern German comedians seem to be incapable of. Georg Hader is one of the best Austrian comedians out there, and his movies are unfortunately hardly famous in Germany, which is a real pity.

Hader mixture of black humor, self irony and the wonderful accent provide splendid entertainment. in "Silentium", he targets the catholic church and the high society of the beautiful city of Salzburg.

While Salzburg is a beautiful panorama for this movie, the most important thing about this film are the characters, who - far from being heroes - try to solve a murder mystery with nothing else but courage and surprising integrity - considering they hardly manage to keep their own lives straight.

A wonderful example of Austrian comedy. Highly recommendable!


27 of 34 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Frightening petra-59
Discuss Silentium (2004) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?