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A Question of Silence

Original title: De stilte rond Christine M.
  • 19821982
  • RR
  • 1h 32m
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6.6/10
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Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Cox Habbema, and Henriëtte Tol in A Question of Silence (1982)
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When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
940
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
79,586
13,216
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    • Director
      • Marleen Gorris
    • Writer
      • Marleen Gorris
    • Stars
      • Edda Barends
      • Nelly Frijda
      • Henriëtte Tol
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    • Director
      • Marleen Gorris
    • Writer
      • Marleen Gorris
    • Stars
      • Edda Barends
      • Nelly Frijda
      • Henriëtte Tol
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    • 26User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations

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    A Question of Silence (1982)
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    Edda Barends
    • Huisvrouw
    Nelly Frijda
    • Koffiejuffrouw
    Henriëtte Tol
    • Secretaresse
    Cox Habbema
    Cox Habbema
    • Psychiater
    Eddie Brugman
    • Echtgenoot
    • (as Eddy Brugman)
    Hans Croiset
    • Rechter
    Erik Plooyer
    • Officier van Justitie
    Anna van Beers
    Eric Besseling
    Noa Cohen
    Kees Coolen
    • Inspecteur
    Edgar Danz
    Diana Dobbelman
    • Vrouw van Psychiater
    Miranda Frijda
    Frederik de Groot
    Frederik de Groot
    Noortje Jansen
    René Lobo
    Sally Loswijk
    • Director
      • Marleen Gorris
    • Writer
      • Marleen Gorris
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    • Trivia
      Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
    • Connections
      Featured in Visions: Cinema, Cinemas/Q & A with Paul Schrader/A Film Comment by Angela Carter (1982)

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    9/10
    Categories do not suffice
    A Question of Silence is a moving film about three women who commit a horrible, violent crime and about the establishment's attempts to understand their motive. Without forethought and without knowing one another, they attack and kill a boutique owner in cold blood. The film follows the psychiatrist (played by Cox Habbema) as she interviews the incarcerated women. The major conflict comes from the women's refusal to state their motive, whence the title. Everyone assumes they must be insane, because to admit otherwise (and this is the conclusion to which the psychiatrist finally comes) is to admit that the world is a very bad place for women, indeed.

    The film is hard to watch, especially, I would imagine, for men. But it by no means glorifies the murder or the murderers. Nor do the murderers find "overwhelming public support" at their trial. What they find is willful incomprehension on the part of the men who arrest them, try them and testify against them. Because what they have done cannot be understood in the context of any existing cultural system, including language, the women can only laugh as their sentence is pronounced. Their laughter is frightening, irrational and yet somehow gives shape to a different kind of logic.
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    • Mar 17, 1999

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    • Release date
      • February 18, 1982 (Netherlands)
    • Country of origin
      • Netherlands
    • Languages
      • Dutch
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die Stille um Christine M.
    • Production company
      • Sigma Film Productions
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      • NLG 300,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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