A Certain Kind of Silence

Synopsis

Czech young au pair Mia starts work abroad for a well-off family in a lavish villa. Mia must look after their ten years old son and follows many strange rules of the household. She slowly begins to gradually and systematically disappear and abandon her morality and her relationships with child entrusted as a result of manipulation by a radical family community. Mia is suddenly able to expresses her love by violent tools.

COUNTRY
Czech Republic, Netherlands, Latvia

GENRE
DRAMA

CO-PRODUCER
Circe Films, Tasse Film
The film was made with the financial support of the Czech Film Fund.

RELEASE DATE
3. 7. 2019

SCREENING FORMATS
DCP

RUNTIME
96 min

Trailer & Photogallery

Cast & Crew

DIRECTOR
Michal Hogenauer

WRITER
Michal Hogenauer, Jakub Felcman

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Gregg Telussa

EDITOR
Michal Reich

CAST
Eliška Křenková, Jacob Jutte, Monic Hendricxs, Roeland Fernhout, Sigrid ten Napel, Matthijs IJgosse, Elisa Beuer, Genio de Groot

MUSIC
Filip Míšek

SOUND DESIGNER
Richard Müller

About the film

The story is loosely inspired and indirectly based on the teachings of the religious sect Twelve Tribes, which recruits new members by using brainwashing and love bombing methods. Twelve Tribes financially supports its activities through organic and cattle farming, management of restaurants Yellow Deli, hostels or furniture factories. Most members could be described as modern slaves. They refuse to send their children to public schools and rather educate them by themselves in their facilities. Their goal is to bring up 144,000 pure boys so that Jesus could return to the Earth. Children of the community are punished in the name of ‘love’ for showing emotions, imagination, gaming, crying or for any disobedience. In September 2013 the German police broke into two residences communities – in the towns Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz – and on suspicion of child abuse they took a total of 40 children from their parents. The Twelve Tribes sect is led by authoritarian Elbert Eugene Spriggs and has offices in USA, France, Spain, UK, Canada or in the Czech Republic.