The Silence of the Sea
Film19491h 27m
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- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Language
- French
- Released
- 1949-04-22
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
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In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.
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