Dead SilenceBarcelona Crime2024|Film|Germany, Spain

Team and Cast

Sommerhaus Serienpresents on behalf ofARD DegetowithClemens SchickAnne SchäferBibiana BeglauBrigitte KarnerAndrea EckertBarbara SchnitzlerAlexander BeyerRenato SchuchDirector of PhotographyRalf NoackEdited byGerald SlovakProduction DesignOriol Puig MagriñáCostume DesignSara Clemente QuinteiroHair & Make-upAlba PesasCastingSuse MarquardtProduction SoundJuan Diego SánchezSound DesignMichael HolzSound MixingMartin GrubeMatthias SchwabOriginal ScoreConrad OleakService ProductionSilvia AráezLine ProducersMichael JungfleischKonstantinos KapsalosJordi UtsetCo-Executive ProducerHannes HöhnExecutive ProducerLeif AlexisCommissioning EditorsSascha MürlKatja KirchenExecutive ProducersJochen LaubeFabian MaubachWritten byCatrin LüthFlorian HanigDirected byAndreas Herzog

Synopsis

The trial of 82-year-old gynecologist Dr. SÁNchez (Bernd Birkhahn) is causing a stir in Barcelona. The former head of a clinic is on trial for taking newborns from their mothers during the Franco dictatorship and giving them to regime-loyal adoptive families. When two nuns are murdered—women who once worked as nurses alongside Sánchez in the maternity ward—Detective FINA VALENT (Anne Schäfer) and her partner Xavi Bonet (Clemens Schick) suspect a connection. From dedicated journalist LucÍA Blanxart (Bibiana Beglau), who accuses doctors, adoptive parents, and the church, they learn how the system of silence and cover-ups still operates. Mothers like Carmen Perreiro (Sylvana Krappatsch), a bus driver, have been searching in vain for their stolen children for decades. Is someone killing out of revenge because justice remains out of reach? However, Fina and Xavi’s professional ethics leave no room for vigilante justice. What they uncover brings fresh pain to those affected.