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Overview

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Director:
Ingmar Bergman
Writer:
Ingmar Bergman (writer)
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Release Date:
3 February 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
"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... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Blu-ray Review: The Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection)
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 16 June 2009, 1:55 AM, PDT)

Ingmar Bergman: 1918-2007
 (From IMDb News. 30 July 2007)

User Comments:
One of the greatest films ever made more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Ingrid Thulin ... Ester
Gunnel Lindblom ... Anna
Birger Malmsten ... The Bartender
Håkan Jahnberg ... The Waiter
Jörgen Lindström ... Johan
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Silence (USA)
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
Sweden
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (AGA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1963) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1965) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1964) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2004) | France:-12 | West Germany:16 (f) (re-rating) | West Germany:18 (f) (original rating) | Argentina:16 | Norway:16 (cut) | Norway:18 (1970) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | UK:X (original rating)

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The chief censor was in holiday when this movie was approved. more
Quotes:
Ester: Erectile tissue... it's all a matter of swollen tissue and secretion; a confession before extreme unction. Semen smells nasty to me. I've a very keen sense of smell and I stank like rotten fish when I was fertilized. more
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Referenced in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS more

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27 out of 34 people found the following comment useful:-
One of the greatest films ever made, 4 February 2003
10/10
Author: mlumiere from Houston

A landmark film - pure breakthrough cinema from Bergman - not just depicting, but living inside the existential dread-abyss of Modernity and its loss of mythic meaning. Two sisters' polarized answers to that dread - one deadens herself - the other seeks escape in mindless sensuality - while the son is abandoned to wander in an empty hotel with only absurd characters to play with, all in a stifling, gray, nameless, tank-ridden, Soviet-Kafkaesque-Eastern block industrial- waste, oppressive city. (I'd be very surprised if this film wasn't a seminal influence on David Lynch.) Brilliant performance by Ingrid Thulin as the cerebral, repressed sister. Startling and beautiful imagery and montage (visual and aural), brilliantly depicting the alienated inner and outer worlds.

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