Silenced (2011)

Other name: 도가니, Dokani, Dogani, Crucible

Description:

In the gripping drama Silenced, Kang InHo, a widowed father struggling with financial debt and a sick daughter, takes a teaching job at a school for the hearing-impaired in Mujin. To secure the position, InHo is forced to pay a massive bribe of 50 million WON, exhausting his mother's home deposit. Upon arrival, he notices the students' unusually distant behavior. One night, after saving a student named YooRi, InHo witnesses the school's dormitory superintendent brutally beating another student, YeonDoo. Shocked by the cruelty, InHo teams up with YooJin, an employee from the Mujin Human Rights Center. Together, they uncover a horrific web of abuse committed by the school’s faculty against the children. As InHo and YooJin fight to break the students' silence, InHo faces intense pressure to remain quiet. With his family's livelihood on the line and rising medical bills, he must choose between financial survival and exposing the truth.

Director: Hwang Dong Hyeok [황동혁]

Country: Korean

Status: Completed

Released: 2011

Genre:Criminal; Drama; Investigation; Law; Psychological