Silenced

(2011)

★ 8.2 IMDb · 810 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2011

Runtime: 125 мин

Country: South Korea

Director: Хван Дон-хёк

Cast: Гон Ю, Чон Ю Ми, 김현수, 정인서, 백승환, Чан Гван, Ким Джу-рён, Ким Мин Сан, 임현성, Чон Гук-хван

Plot

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.

Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter's surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children's rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yu-jin. But he and Yu-jin soon realize the school's principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth.