Voice of Silence (1953 film)
1953 film
- 29 April 1953 (1953-04-29) (France)
Running time
France
Voice of Silence (Italian: La voce del silenzio, French: La maison du silence) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by G. W. Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.[2][3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, Italy.
Plot
A group of people, to try to make sense of their existence, retreats to a convent because each has problems considered insurmountable: a war veteran who is given up for dead returns from captivity in a sensational way and once home he finds his wife married and happy with another man; a partisan, during a war action, causes the death of three people; a votive candle dealer is too selfish to practice his trade. Then a writer famous for his production of works for adults arrive at the convent through which, according to many detractors, he corrupts many young minds, and a young priest who, dismayed by such a tumult of souls, is seized by mistrust regarding his vocation. At the end of the stay, everyone will leave, both those strengthened in their convictions and those who remain with their character and decide to continue their previous life.
Cast
- Aldo Fabrizi as Pio Fabiani
- Jean Marais as L'ancien maquisard
- Daniel Gélin as L'ancien prisonnier
- Cosetta Greco as Femme du prisonnier
- Franck Villard as L'écrivain
- Antonio Crast as Padre predicatore
- Eduardo Ciannelli as Padre superiore
- Paolo Panelli as Renato Santini
- Fernando Fernán Gómez as Fernando Layer
- Maria Grazia Francia as Pieta
- Checco Durante as Sacrestano
- Paolo Stoppa
- Rossana Podestà
- Enrico Luzi
- Franco Scandurra
- Pina Piovani
References
- ^ "Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films". Box Office Story.
- ^ "NY Times: Voice of Silence". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ Rentschler p.285
Bibliography
- Rentschler, Eric. The Films of G.W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 1990.
External links
- Voice of Silence at IMDb
- La Conciencia acusa (1953) at the Films de France
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Films directed by G. W. Pabst
- The Treasure (1923)
- Countess Donelli (1924)
- Joyless Street (1925)
- Secrets of a Soul (1926)
- One Does Not Play with Love (1926)
- The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
- The Devious Path (1928)
- Pandora's Box (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
- Westfront 1918 (1930)
- Scandalous Eva (1930)
- The Threepenny Opera (1931)
- Kameradschaft (1931)
- L'Atlantide (1932)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- High and Low (1933)
- A Modern Hero (1934)
- Street of Shadows (1937)
- The Shanghai Drama (1938)
- Girls in Distress (1939)
- The Comedians (1941)
- Paracelsus (1943)
- Der Fall Molander (1945)
- The Trial (1948)
- Mysterious Shadows (1949)
- Call Over the Air (1951)
- Voice of Silence (1953)
- Cose da pazzi (1954)
- The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954)
- The Last Ten Days (1955)
- Jackboot Mutiny (1955)
- Ballerina (1956)
- Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)
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