The film will be on BBC4 next Saturday night at 9pm:
Showing posts with label The Silence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Silence. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
TV News: The Silence on BBC4
I've mentioned the film, The Silence a couple of times on this blog. It's a German film of Jan Costin Wagner's book, Silence, with the setting changed from Finland to Germany.
The film will be on BBC4 next Saturday night at 9pm:
Media reports of the disappearance and murder of a teenage girl remind
Timo of something that he has spent his adult life trying to forget,
that he was witness to a similar crime 23 years ago. All this time he
has kept his silence, but now, with a wife and family of his own, he
must confront the past.
The film will be on BBC4 next Saturday night at 9pm:
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Silence - DVD Release
The Silence, based on Jan Costin Wagner's book Silence, was released on DVD yesterday in the UK. I am very intrigued to watch this to compare it to the book. The action has been switched to Germany from Finland and from the reviews the crime that opens the book is shown in a more explicit manner.
Euro Crime reviews of the book are here (me) and here (Mark).
Official blurb: 2 missing girls. Same place. Same time. 23 years apart. History repeats itself in this knife-edged thriller, which has been described as the natural successor to The Killing.
An ageing detective comes out of retirement in the hope of solving a missing girl case, which is believed to be connected to an unsolved mystery that happened 23 years ago. Over the long hot summer days, tensions start to reach breaking point as our troubled detective closes in on the deeply methodical serial killer.
A striking debut, The Silence follows on from European crime thrillers such as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Wallander as it delves into the psyche of detectives and criminals to deliver a chilling story of murder and betrayal.
Euro Crime reviews of the book are here (me) and here (Mark).
Official blurb: 2 missing girls. Same place. Same time. 23 years apart. History repeats itself in this knife-edged thriller, which has been described as the natural successor to The Killing.An ageing detective comes out of retirement in the hope of solving a missing girl case, which is believed to be connected to an unsolved mystery that happened 23 years ago. Over the long hot summer days, tensions start to reach breaking point as our troubled detective closes in on the deeply methodical serial killer.
A striking debut, The Silence follows on from European crime thrillers such as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Wallander as it delves into the psyche of detectives and criminals to deliver a chilling story of murder and betrayal.
Monday, October 31, 2011
The Silence - Trailer
I was recently invited to an early showing of The Silence, based on Jan Costin Wagner's novel Silence. Unfortunately I couldn't attend but it is now on at a couple of cinemas in London: the Odeon in Panton Street and the Greenwich Picture House. I'm not sure if it's on anywhere else at the moment.Silence is the second book in the Kimmo Joentaa series but for the film the setting has been moved from Finland to Germany.
It's quite a gruelling read, which you can see from the trailer:
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