Silentium

2004
1h 56m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

3.5K

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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 ... Read allA 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.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.

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7.5/10

3.5K

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations

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Josef Hader, Maria Köstlinger, and Udo Samel in Silentium (2004)

Josef Hader and Simon Schwarz in Silentium (2004)

Josef Hader and Udo Samel in Silentium (2004)

Josef Hader, Christoph Schlingensief, and Simon Schwarz in Silentium (2004)

Josef Hader and Rosie Alvarez in Silentium (2004)

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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.

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.

Quotes
Simon Brenner: Normally, a priest is just supposed to turn bread into flesh and wine into blood. But during the hygiene hour in the boarding school showers his priestly shorts turned into a sailboat.

Connections
Followed by Der Knochenmann (2009)

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Featured review

8/10

Splendid black comedy

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!

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