Silenced (2011) on Netflix
Needing money for his daughter's surgery, Kang In-ho becomes the art teacher at a school for deaf children in Mujin. The children keep away from him.
- Netflix4.5/5
- IMDb8.0/1028,380 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Kang In-ho drives to Mujin, North Jeolla Province, to begin as the art teacher at a school for deaf children. He needs the salary for his daughter's surgery, and his wife had taken her own life a year before; his mother cares for the girl. At the academy he meets headmaster Lee Gang-seok and Lee Gang-bok, the headmaster's twin brother, who runs the administration. In-ho is eager to teach, but the students keep their distance and avoid running into him. He persists with them, trying to show that he cares. The story is based on real events at a school for the deaf in Gwangju, where teachers assaulted students over five years.
Cast
- In-seo Jeongas Jin Yoo-ri
- Joo-ryeong Kimas Yoon Ja-ae
- Min-Sang Kimas Park Bo-hyun
- Hyun-sung Limas Young-Hoon
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Silenced (2011)
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- South Korea's National Assembly passed the "Dogani Law", named after the film's Korean title, in 2011, removing the statute of limitations for sexual assault against children under 13 and disabled people and raising the maximum sentence for rape of young children and disabled people to up to life in prison.
- Two months after the film's release and the resulting controversy, the city of Gwangju officially shut down Gwangju Inhwa School in November 2011.
- Of the six teachers at Gwangju Inhwa School for whom the education authority recommended serious punishment, four were reinstated after escaping punishment under the statute of limitations; only two were convicted of repeatedly raping eight young students and received jail terms of less than a year.
- In July 2012, the Gwangju District Court sentenced a 63-year-old former administrator of Gwangju Inhwa School to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old student in April 2005.
- The film is based on events at Gwangju Inhwa School for the Deaf, where young Deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over five years in the early 2000s.
- The ruling conservative Grand National Party (GNP) called for an investigation into author Gong Ji-young for engaging in "political activities", a move that was met with public derision.
