The Silence (1963)

Recommended

Sweden

Feature Film

Original Title: Tystnaden

Writer/Director: Ingmar Bergman

Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist

Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström

During the build-up to a war of some kind in an unnamed European city, a young boy with his mother and aunt hold-up in a large virtually deserted hotel, battling ill-health, jealousy, guilt, resentment, and sexual longing, in Bergman’s disquietingly enigmatic examination of emotional crises in a Godless world. Iain.Stott