The Silent Forest

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Theatrical Release: 27th October 2022

World Premiere at Berlinale ’22 – Perspektive Deutsches Kino

 

SYNOPSIS

Forestry Student Anja Grimm is working on a soil-mapping project in a remote region in Bavaria where she used to spend summer vacations with her parents. She is ill at ease because it is the very region where her father disappeared when she was just eight years old. A few days into the work, the nightmare of her childhood seems to repeat itself. Deep in the woods she runs into Xaver, the village idiot, whom she often played with when she was a child. He reacts strangely when he realizes who she is. Just hours after they meet, he hangs himself. And Xaver’s suicide will not remain the only disturbing event connected to Anja’s reappearance.

The villagers meet her with reserve and eventually with hostility. The Police are strangely reluctant to reopen what for them is a closed case. Soon the villagers begin to suspect that Anja’s return is not mere chance. And when they realize that her scientific skills allow her to “read” their forest in ways they could not even begin to imagine, they are faced with a terrible decision.

An emotionally charged thriller about guilt and denial, “The Silent Forest” is set in a present day idyllic German region still haunted by terrible events that transpired there during the last days of war- a moving story about a Young woman who cannot help but “read” the mute testimony of the horrors of history written in the silent language of nature.

Based on: “Little Dead Riding Hood ” by Wolfram Fleischhauer

Infos

Coproduction with Poison GmbH, BR, arte, hr, SR
Funded by FFF Bayern, BKM, DFFF
Sales: Alpenrepublik
World Sales: Blue Fox Entertainment

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With

Henriette Confurius
Noah Saavedra
Robert Stadlober
August Zirner
Johannes Herrschmann
Johanna Bittenbinder

Team

Director: Saralisa Volm
Screenplay: Wolfram Fleischhauer (after the novel of the same)
Producer: Saralisa Volm, Ingo Fliess
Production Manager: Luzie Lohmeyer
Line Producer: Patrick Volm-Dettenbach
Camera: Roland Stuprich
Sound: Marc Parisotto
Production Design: Renate Schmaderer
Costume Design: Teresa Grosser
Make-Up Design: Stefanie Heiss
Edited by: Daniel Kundrat
Score: Malakoff Kowalski
Sounddesign: Niklas Kammertöns
Re-Recording Mixer: Hubertus Rath