LE SILENCE DE LA MER (VERSION FRANAISE)

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Plot: Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. Constructed with elegant minimalism and shot, by the legendary Henri Decae¨, with hushed eloquence, Le silence de la mer points the way toward Melville’s later films about resistance and the occupation (Le´on Morin, Priest; Army of Shadows) yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right.
• Cast: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier, Rudelle, Max Fromm, Claude Vernier, Max Hermann, Fritz Schmiedel, Jean-Pierre Melville, Vercors
• Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Melville Productions, The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Gaumont
• Media Format: Movie