Silentium

Silentium

2004116 min7.2 / 10

A darkly comedic thriller about institutional silence and complicity, where an eccentric detective pursues truth against a conspiracy of denial rooted in Catholic authority.

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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