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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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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 641559
- Image
- Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Thulin -Tystnaden.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Silence (1963 film)
- publication date
- 1964-02-03
- title
- Tystnaden
- review score
- 85%
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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.