Frozen Silence

'Silence in the Snow') is a 2012 Spanish-Lithuanian war-time mystery thriller directed by Gerardo Herrero which stars Juan Diego Botto as inspector Arturo Andrade and Carmelo Gómez as a fascist fellow Blue Division member, with both investigating a series of killings in the midst of the Winter in the eastern theatre of World War II.

The discovery of the corpse of a soldier with a blood inscription on the chest made with a knife (the start of a series or ritual killings) near Leningrad haunts a battalion of the Blue Division, the unit dispatched by the Francoist dictatorship to help Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in World War II.

Private Arturo Andrade (a former police inspector and someone with a shrouded past suggested to be damning from an ideological standpoint)[1] and fascist sergeant Espinosa team up to crack the mystery, which turns up to be related to a Masonic lodge in Valencia.

Written by Nicolás Saad, the screenplay is an adaptation of Ignacio del Valle's [es] El tiempo de los emperadores extraños, part of a tetralogy of novels featuring inspector Arturo Andrade.

[11] Alfonso Rivera of Cineuropa wrote about the film's atmosphere, "rarefied and marred not only because of the murders that reek of revenge, sadism and depravity, but also the little attachment to life of some soldiers, the internal corruption of the troops, the solitude devoid of feelings that is suffered in such circumstances and the desperate search for answers to something that has no reason to be".