The Silence of the Sea

Drama, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jean-Pierre Melville

Status Released

Release Date 1949-04-22

Storyline

In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.