Tystnaden

"BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!"

Feb 3 1964 R 1h 36m
Drama

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.

Plot

"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?

Written by

Ingmar Bergman

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Cast

Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten

Crew

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Production Countries

Sweden

Production Companies

SF Studios

Languages

Français, Deutsch, English, svenska, Español

Awards

3 wins & 2 nominations

Trailers
The Silence (1963) Theatrical Trailer
The Silence (1963) Original Trailer [FHD]
Scores
# of Votes
21,902
Average Rating
7.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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