Silenced (2011)

Silenced rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 27K votes

Rotten Tomatoes100%

TMDb8.16/10· 771 votes

With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Silenced

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

Cast of Silenced

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  Gong Yoo

  as Kang In-ho

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  Jung Yu-mi

  as Seo Yoo-jin

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  Kim Hyeon-soo

  as Kim Yeon-doo

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  Jung In-seo

  as Jin Yoo-ri

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  Baek Su-ho

  as Jeon Min-soo

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  Jang Kwang

  as Principal / Principal's Brother

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  Kim Joo-ryoung

  as Yoon Ja-ae

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  Kim Min-sang

  as Park Bo-hyeon

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  Lim Hyun-sung

  as Young-hoon

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  Jeon Kuk-hwan

  as Attorney Hwang

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  Choi Jin-ho

  as Prosecutor

• K

  Kwon Hong-suk

  as Judge

Silenced facts

Original title

도가니

Budget

$2.2M

Box office

$31.5M

Our take on Silenced

Hwang Dong-hyuk's 2011 Korean drama dramatises a real scandal: the systematic abuse of deaf students at a school, and a teacher's fight to expose it against institutional cover-up. Sober and infuriating, it sparked real legal reform in South Korea — proof of cinema's power to force a reckoning. If its righteous anger and true-story weight stayed with you, seek out unflinching social dramas and whistleblower films that confront injustice head-on.