THE SILENT FOREST

The Silent Forest

US sales outfit Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded German actress Saralisa Volm’s feature directorial debut The Silent Forest, a mystery thriller that is premiering in Perspektive Deutsches Kino at the Berlinale.

The Silent Forest is based on Wolfram Fleischhauer’s novel The Forest Stands Silent about a trainee forester who sees parallels between a murder in the Upper Palatine Forest and the unsolved death of her father 20 years earlier. Fleischhauer adapted the screenplay.

Henriette Confurius from the Netflix show Tribes Of Europa stars wth Noah Saavedra, Robert Stadlober and August Zirner.

Volm’s Poison produced The Silent Forest alongside Ingo Fliess’ if… Productions.

Lisa Gutberlet, head of sales at Blue Fox Entertainment, and her team represent international territories excluding German-speaking Europe where Arte will release. Blue Fox’s US distribution arm plans a late 2022 US release.

Blue Fox’s EFM sales slate includes comedy drama Language Lessons starring Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass, romance The Lost Husband starring Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb, and upcoming thriller The Girl At The Window with Radha Mitchell.