(1949) The Silence of the Sea/ Le silence de la mer
(In French with English subtitles)
WAR DRAMA
First film so-written and directed by influential film maker Jean Pierre Melville which centers on three people. Based on an actual book of the same name by Vercors from 1942, set in WWII involving a high ranking German officer( Howard Vernon) issued to live with an elderly uncle( Jean-Marie Robain) as he narrates the entire experience as him and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) just when France was being occupied. The high ranking German officer, at first has some misconceptions about the Third Reich's intentions of why they reside in France as viewers already know throughout that his ideals is not the case at all.
First film so-written and directed by influential film maker Jean Pierre Melville which centers on three people. Based on an actual book of the same name by Vercors from 1942, set in WWII involving a high ranking German officer( Howard Vernon) issued to live with an elderly uncle( Jean-Marie Robain) as he narrates the entire experience as him and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) just when France was being occupied. The high ranking German officer, at first has some misconceptions about the Third Reich's intentions of why they reside in France as viewers already know throughout that his ideals is not the case at all.