Those Germans Sure Know How To Disturb The Psyche

In the same vein as Michael Haneke’s world renowned shock tactics, the new German thriller Das Letzte Schweigen looks to be one of the more frightening and unnerving indies to come out of the country in a few years. I haven’t been able to find much information on it, and the website isn’t helping much either. They don’t even offer a synopsis. Thanks to a fellow QuietEarth reader though, I was able to find a translation of the narration in the trailer. Check it out below.

Summer 1986

The heat was unbearable

On this day the evil was amongst us

We have needed weeks to find her

The murderer was never found

Then everything was forgotten

The summerheat is like a glass cover abouve us

We are crawling away into our one-family-houses

But behind the doors we are falling apart, piece after piece, till we are just ghosts

Then it happens again
At the same spot
Nobody knows why
The past overtakes us
The desperation is killing us -
all of us

We are getting lost
turning in circles
losing ourselfs

There are no answers

All that remains is silence

It still doesn’t answer some of the finer details of the plot, but definitely gives a much better idea of what the film is all about. It certainly looks and sounds intriguing enough, and to be perfectly honest, the cinematography and tone of German films like this are unique enough to put them in a league all their own. Haneke himself perfected it and now it appears as though others are following suit. Check out the trailer above, I’m pretty stoked about this one, so let me know what you think.

-William Gutheil