The Great Silence
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alma struggles to show him mercy, as his presence unearths a family secret she has desperately tried to suppress. With the ceremony impending, Alma begins to lose her footing and doubt whether she is worthy of the love of her God.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | Den Store Stilhed |
| Year | 2023 |
| Country | Denmark |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Katrine Brocks |
| Runtime | 95 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.3/10 (7 votes) |
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The film constructs a tense dialogue between the silence of faith and the noise of the past, relying on sparse yet expressive visual language. It explores profound internal conflict through the actors' penetrating performances, where glances and pauses carry immense weight.
What lingers after the final frame is a quiet, unsettling resonance—a meditation on grace, guilt, and whether some wounds can ever be truly absolved within the human heart. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Katrine Brocks
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