The Silent Forest (2022)
- Original title
- Schweigend steht der Wald
- Directed by
- Saralisa Volm
- Genre
- mystery, thriller, crime, drama
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 49 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
A trainee forester starts noticing clues that connect a recent murder in the woods to the mysterious disappearance of her father twenty years earlier. She begins to investigate what happened to him.
mysteriousatmosphericslow-burnmelancholicbroodingtensesuspensefulintrospective
What happens
The Silent Forest ((in German) Schweigend steht der Wald) is a 2022 German film directed by Saralisa Volm in her feature directorial debut and based on a 2013 German book of the same name by Wolfram Fleischhauer, who also wrote the film's screenplay. The story revolves around a trainee forester who notices parallels between a murder in the forest and the mysterious disappearance of her father twenty years ago. The film was shot in Weiden in der Oberpfalz over 25 days, in April and May 2021. It premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on 16 February 2022, in the Perspective on German Cinema (Perspektive Deutsches Kino) section of the festival. The lead cast includes Henriette Confurius, Christina Baumer, Johanna Bittenbinder, Christoph Jungmann, Günther Brenner, Moritz Katzmair, Johannes Herrschmann, Robert Stadlober, Noah Saavedra, August Zirner, Astrid Polak, and Anita Eichhorn. Süddeutsche Zeitung called the film an impressive and confident directing debut for Volm, making her one of the most genuine and promising voices in German cinema. The film is distributed internationally through Blue Fox Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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