The Silence
  • Title: The Silence
  • Original Title: Tystnaden
  • Release Date: 23/09/1963
  • Tagline: BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!
  • Duration:95 Min / 01:35
  • Country:SE
  • Genre:DramaRomance

About Film

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Movie Rating: 7.5

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Though they are travelling together through an un-named country, there appears to be little love lost between the poorly “Ester” (Ingrid Thulin) and her younger sister “Anna” (Gunnel Lindblom) who also has her young son “Johan” (Jörgen Lindstrom) in tow, too. Even though “Ester” is a linguist, she doesn’t readily understand the language here and...