The Silence

Tystnaden

Ingmar Bergman’s powerful reflection on alienation and sexuality is one of his darkest dramas.

  • Director

    Ingmar Bergman

  • With

    Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten

  • Sweden 1963. 105min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

During a trip to a foreign country, Ester is taken ill, requiring both her and her travel companions, sister Anna and nephew Johan, to stay in a mostly vacant hotel. Through enigmatic encounters, unsettling silences and unspoken tensions, the sisters explore their sexuality, and desire for connection and understanding. Part of Bergman’s ‘Faith Trilogy’, The Silence is a provocative and haunting meditation on loneliness and the search for meaning in the modern world.