Le silence de la mer [DVD video]

1941. An idealistic, naive German officer in Nazi occupied France is assigned to the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece. Their response to his presence - their only form of resistance - is complete silence.

General Note:

From the novel by Vercors (Jean Marcel Bruller).

Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.

Special features: Disc 2: 24 hours in the life of a clown (1946, Melville's seventeen-minute first film); Melville steps out of the shadows (2010, a 42-minute documentary about Le Silence De La Mer); Code name Melville (2008, a 76-minute documentary on Melville's time in the French Resistance and his films about it); Ginette Vincendeau (new interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau about the film); Cinépanorama (interview with Melville aired on the April 18, 1959 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama, conducted by François Chalais). Booklet includes essay "Stranger in the House" by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira's 1971 book Melville on Melville.

Performers:

Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier.

Technical Details:

DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Drama.

Anti-Nazi movement -- France -- Drama.

Soldiers -- Billeting -- France -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.