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Silence (The)

Country: Sweden, Language: Swedish, 96 mins

Original Title

Tystnaden
  • Director: Ingmar Bergman
  • Writer: Ingmar Bergman
  • Producer: Allan Ekelund

CGiii Comment

This is cinema - it is darkly beautiful...but, by no stretch of the imagination is it enjoyable.

Both actresses excel with the intensity - they must have been physically drained by the end.

The metaphors are everywhere.

A work of genius, perhaps...but, not an entertaining one.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?

Cast & Characters

Ingrid Thulin as Ester;
Gunnel Lindblom as Anna;
Birger Malmsten as The Bartender;
Hakan Jahnberg as The Waiter;
Jorgen Lindstrom as Johan;
Lissi Alandh as Woman in variety hall;
Karl-Arne Bergman as The paper boy;
Leif Forstenberg as Man in variety hall;
Eduardo Gutierrez as Impressario;
Eskil Kalling as The bar owner;
Birger Lensander as The Doorkeeper;
Kristina Olausson as Anna;
Nils Waldt as The Cashier;
Olof Widgren as The Old Man