Silentium (2004)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.7/10   

Réalisateur:

Wolfgang Murnberger

Writers:

Wolf Haas (novel)
Wolf Haas (screenplay)

Release Date:

24 septembre 2004 (Autriche)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Austrian | Widow | Pervert | Filipina | Narrator

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

not as good as the book

Ensemble

Josef Hader	...	Simon Brenner
Simon Schwarz	...	Berti
Joachim Król	...	Sportpräfekt Fitz
Maria Köstlinger	...	Konstanze Dornhelm
Udo Samel	...	Festspielpräsident
Jürgen Tarrach	...	Opernsänger Schmittke
Rosie Alvarez	...	Di Ding
Georg Friedrich	...	Hausmeister Josef
Anne Bennent	...	Apothekerin
Luka Omoto	...	Jungfrau
Johannes Silberschneider	...	Inspektor Stronegger
Joachim Bissmeier	...	Regens
Karl Fischer	...	Killer Max
Wolfgang S. Zechmayer	...	Killer Moritz
Christoph Schlingensief	...	Opernregisseur

Durée:

110 min | Germany:116 min

Pays:

Autriche

Langue:

Allemand

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Austria:18 | Germany:16

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Salzburg, Austria

Company:

Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft

Anecdotes:

Director Cameo: [Wolfgang Murnberger]one of the musicians singing a gospel in front of the train station.

Goofs:

Continuity: 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.

Movie Connections:

References North by Northwest (1959)

not as good as the book

Silentium is a very funny book and made me laugh out loud, (which very few books do). I was curious how it could possibly translate into a film, as so much of the humour in all of Wolf Haas's Simon Brenner novels comes comes from the prose style and the clever, dry, often very politically incorrect, comments of the narrator. And in the end, a lot of that humour was lost in the film. The film still had the amusing situation and black comedy of the book (even if the plot had been slightly rewritten) and some of the narrator's comments were included, but it was funny more in a sort of slapstick way, whereas the book is witty.