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The Silence (1963)
Also Known As: Tystnaden
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year: 1963
Color/BW: COLOR
Category: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Description
In the third installment of Ingmar Bergman's 'Faith Trilogy', two sisters - the sick, intellectual Ester and the promiscuous, pragmatic Anna - while traveling with Anna's son Johan, find themselves in a foreign town. Language prevents them from talking to townsfolk, and their own emotional barrier brings about a silence between them. Young Johan is their only connecting link in a film where Bergman offers a disturbing view of emotional isolation in a faithless world.
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Hakan Jahnberg
One of the best and most personal interviews of Bergman catches the master director uninhibitedly talking about life, films, cinema, dreams... "Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons," says Bergman in the interview. The director Gunnar Bergdahl is a writer, film critic, festival curator and founder-editor of Swedish cinema magazine 'Filmkonst'. This is his second Bergman interview.
A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime; kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing. The kidnappers get desperate. The son has an idea. The plot thickens.
