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Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence - their only form of resistance - is complete silence. Constructed with elegant minimalism and shot, by the legendary Henri Decaë, with hushed eloquence, Le silence de la mer points the way toward Melville’s later films about resistance and the occupation (Leon Morin, Priest; Army of Shadows) yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right. (Criterion)
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Howard Vernon
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Love and Death (1975)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Nicole Stéphane
France
Best movies:
Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
Claude Vernier
German Empire
Best movies:
The Confession (1970)
The President (1961)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Fritz Schmiedel
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
Mission à Tanger (1949)
Jean-Marie Robain
France
Best movies:
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Army of Shadows (1969)