Film · Drama, Romance
The Silence (1963)
BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!
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.
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writers
- Ingmar Bergman
- Country
- Sweden
- Language
- Swedish
- Release date
- September 23, 1963
- Original title
- Tystnaden
Cast
Ingrid ThulinEster
Gunnel LindblomAnna
Birger MalmstenBartender- Håkan JahnbergHotel Steward
Jörgen LindströmJohan
Kotti ChaveOfficer in the Train Compartment
Lissi AlandhWoman in Variety Hall (uncredited)- Leif ForstenbergMan in Variety Hall (uncredited)
- Eskil KallingBar Owner (uncredited)
- Karl-Arne BergmanPaperboy (uncredited)
- Carl Andersson
- Olof Huddén
- Claes Esphagen
