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7.5Traveling 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.
Cast
- Ingrid Thulin as Ester
- Gunnel Lindblom as Anna
- Birger Malmsten as Bartender
- Håkan Jahnberg as Hotel Steward
- Jörgen Lindström as Johan
- Kotti Chave as Officer in the Train Compartment
Themes
- hotel
- sibling relationship
- travel
- rage
- desire
- complex
- sister sister relationship
- anxious
- playful
- dramatic
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Written by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Produced by
- Allan Ekelund
- Starring
- Ingrid Thulin , Gunnel Lindblom , Birger Malmsten , Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström
- Cinematography
- Sven Nykvist
- Edited by
- Ulla Ryghe
- Distributed by
- Svensk Filmindustri
- Release date
- 23 September 1963 ( 1963-09-23 )
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- Sweden
- Language
- Swedish
- Box office
- $350,000 (USA)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Silence (Swedish: Tystnaden) is a 1963 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. The plot focuses on two sisters, the younger a sensuous woman with a young son, the elder more intellectually oriented and seriously ill, and their tense relationship as they travel toward home through a fictional Central European country on the brink of war.
The film is the third in a series of thematically related films, following Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Winter Light (1963), which is sometimes considered a trilogy. In addition to interpretations of spiritual issues, The Silence is sometimes interpreted as presenting its two sister characters as two sides of a single woman, one representing the physical and the other language. Bergman was inspired by his travels around Europe after World War II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Silence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.