The Silence

Name: The Silence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1963-09-23
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström

BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!

Tystnaden (1963)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

7.5/10
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Release date

1963-09-23

Country

Sweden

Production

SF Studios

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

Revenue

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström, Kotti Chave, Lissi Alandh, Leif Forstenberg, Eskil Kalling, Karl-Arne Bergman
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Scenario

Producer

Allan Ekelund

Operator

Sven Nykvist

Composer

Ivan Renliden

Artist

Audition

Editing

Ulla Ryghe
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Immediately after the film's release in 1963, Bergman and his wife were refused accommodation by the owners of a dacha on the island of Ornö, who stated that decent tenants should not film indecent movies.
The extraordinary frankness of some of the film's scenes led to Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)'s film attracting a larger audience than usual. When Bergman himself noticed this, he remarked that the film had attracted the least desirable audience.
At the moment the finished film received the 'green light', the chief censor was on vacation.
The language used in the film was created by Gunvor (Gun) Marianne Bergman, née Hagberg, a Swedish literary translator and journalist.
The film received a peculiar international recognition. In the USA, it was presented as semi-pornographic, in Argentina the film's distributor was sentenced to one year of conditional imprisonment, and in Uruguay the film was shown without censorship.

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