The Silence (1963 film)

The Silence Swedish Tystnaden is a 1963 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. The plot focuses on two sisters the younger a sensuous woman with a young son, the elder more intellectually oriented and seriously ill and their tense relationship as they travel toward home through a fictional Central European country on the brink of war.

The sisters rent a tworoomapartment in a oncegrandiose hotel. Ester suffers in her room, selfmedicating with vodka and cigarettes while trying to work. Johan wanders around the hotels hallways, encountering the elderly hotel porter and a group of Spanish dwarves who are part of a traveling show. Meanwhile, Anna ventures into the city and is openly advanced by a waiter in a cafe. Later, she watches a show in an uncrowded theatre, and is both repelled and fascinated when a young couple begin to have sex in a seat nearby. Anna returns to the cafe, brushes past the waiter, and returns to the hotel in time.Left with Johan while his mother is out, Ester attempts to form a more intimate bond with him, but Johan avoids her attempts to stroke his hair and face. On Annas return, Ester is eager for an account of what her sister has done after seeing her soiled dress. Provoked, Anna spitefully fabricates a sexual encounter with the waiter to her sister. Anna also reveals her intention to meet him again that evening, which Ester, not wanting to be left alone, begs her not to do. ........

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