The Silence - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Silence"

Tystnaden (1963)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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All about film

Video 1

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Actors and characters

English

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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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