Frozen Silence

Silencio en la nieve, feature film, crime drama, Spain, 2011

DIRECTED BY: Gerardo Herrero

Frozen Silence

CAST:
Juan Diego Botto (Arturo Andrade),
Carmelo Gómez (Espinosa),
Víctor Clavijo (Estrada),
Jordi Aguilar (Cabo Aparicio),
Gabriele Malinauskaite (Zira)

SCRIPT:
Nicolás Saad (based on the novel by Ignacio del Valle)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Alfredo Mayo

Synopsis:


Using real historical events as the background, the story focuses on the fictitious case of a serial killer in the war setting. Spanish military unit known as the Blue Division, consisting of volunteers, fights for the German side. In 1943 during a harsh winter on the Russian front and the soldiers find corpses of Spanish soldiers with carved verses from a children’s song. Arturo Andrade, who as a police inspector as a civilian, takes the task of solving the case by finding the murderer…

color, digital, 106 min

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