THE SILENCE
synopsis
"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?
international title: | The Silence |
original title: | Tystnaden |
country: | Sweden |
year: | 1963 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ingmar Bergman |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | SE 23/09/1963, NL 16/01/1964, DE 24/01/1964, DK 17/02/1964, FR 11/03/1964, BE 02/04/1964, IT 04/04/1964, UK 04/1964, GR 14/05/1964, FI 26/02/1965, TR 06/10/1965, PT 06/03/1975, RU 15/04/1994, PL 16/03/2007 |
screenplay: | Ingmar Bergman |
cast: | Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten |
cinematography by: | Sven Nykvist |
film editing: | Ulla Ryghe |
art director: | P.A. Lundgren |
costumes designer: | Marik Vos-Lundh |