Director: Miguel García de la Calera
A Madrid advertising executive learns his remaining time is measured in months, and everything he thought mattered gets quietly rearranged in "The Silence of Marcos Tremmer" (2024).
What is The Silence of Marcos Tremmer about?
Marcos has built a life that looks complete from the outside: a thriving career in publicity, a marriage he treats as the center of everything, a rhythm to his days that rarely wavers. A diagnosis breaks that rhythm. Rather than turning the film into a countdown of medical appointments, the story follows Marcos as he starts editing his own habits, his silences, and the small dishonesties that had crept into his closest relationship. His wife Lucía notices the shift before she understands its cause, and the tension between what Marcos withholds and what he finally says drives the second half of the film. Shot across Madrid locations that feel lived-in rather than postcard-pretty, the drama stays close to two people trying to be honest with each other under a deadline neither of them chose.
Cast & crew
Benjamín Vicuña carries Marcos's outward composure and inward unraveling without overplaying either register, while Adriana Ugarte gives Lucía a watchfulness that turns the marriage into the film's real subject. Félix Gómez, Daniel Hendler, and Mirta Busnelli round out a supporting circle of friends and colleagues who each get a moment to reflect Marcos back to himself. Director Miguel García de la Calera keeps the camera at conversational distance, favoring rooms and cars over grand gestures.
Context & significance
The production draws on Chilean, Spanish, Dominican, and Uruguayan talent and financing, part of a wave of Spanish-language dramas that treat illness as a lens on a relationship rather than the entire plot. At 112 minutes, the pacing leaves room for scenes to sit rather than rush toward a twist, which fits a story more interested in what people choose not to say than in medical suspense.
Where & how to watch
"The Silence of Marcos Tremmer" streams on K-Time with a Persian-language dub, and the film's page is free to browse without logging in. Watching the full film requires a K-Time account, and the rest of the interface is available in Farsi for viewers who want a fully Persian experience while following an English-language drama.