LE SILENCE DE LA MER [BLU-RAY] (VERSION FRANAISE)

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Plot: 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 (Léon Morin, Priest; Army of Shadows) yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right.;
• Cast: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier, Rudelle, Max Fromm, Claude Vernier, Max Hermann, Fritz Schmiedel, Jean-Pierre Melville, Vercors, Henri Decaë, Edgar Bischoff, Jacques Carrère
• Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Pierre Braunberger, Gaumont S.A., Melville Productions, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie