CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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For the cold, lingering dread beneath The Silence’s investigation: an exhausted detective follows a series of baffling killings through quietly uncanny, stripped-back scenes.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Summer 1986: Pia, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, is raped and murdered in a wheat field near a small provincial German town by one man while another man watches silently from the passenger seat of his red car. The murderer packs Pia's body into the trunk of the car and leaves her bicycle behind.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen

Peer Sommer

Sebastian Blomberg

Sebastian Blomberg

David Jahn

Jule Böwe

Jule Böwe

Jana Gläser

Roeland Wiesnekker

Roeland Wiesnekker

Karl Weghamm

Claudia Michelsen

Claudia Michelsen

Julia Friedrich

Lena Klenke

Lena Klenke

Sinikka Weghamm

Helene Luise Doppler

Pia Lange

Michael Dorn

Michael Dorn

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