The Silence (1963)
Tystnaden
"BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!"
ThumbScore
👍 89%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 85%
(RT: 85%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Birger Malmsten as Bartender
Håkan Jahnberg as Hotel Steward
Jörgen Lindström as Johan
Kotti Chave as Officer in the Train Compartment
Lissi Alandh as Woman in Variety Hall (uncredited)
Leif Forstenberg as Man in Variety Hall (uncredited)
Is The Silence good?
Yes. 89% audience score, estimated from 412 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 85%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
Overview
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation. Wikipedia ↗
