The Silence

BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!

• Rated 7.5 out of 10
• Movie
• 1963
• 1h 35m
• Drama
• Romance

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

Starring

Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg