- HD 1080
- Runtime: 87m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France
- Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
- Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Amy Aaröe, Georges Patrix
- keywords: france, nazi, world war ii, nazi occupation, occupied france (1940-44)
- Production_studio: Melville Productions, Organisation Générale Cinématographique
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The Silence of the Sea is featured in the top rankings of 1949
- #5 in Top Drama Movies of 1949
- #1 in Top War Movies of 1949
In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany. That is, until he visits Paris and discovers what is really going on...
