Le silence de la mer
(2015)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/FRENCH/SILENCE
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
DESCRIPTION
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9781604659870 CC2479DDVD, 1604659874, 9781604659870, 1604659874 :, 715515145015
LANGUAGE
French
NOTES
Title from web page
An idealistic, naive German officer 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
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949
Fullscreen (1.33:1)
Special features: 24 hours in the life of a clown (1946), Melville's seventeen-minute first film; New interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau; Interview with Melville from 1959; Plus: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Howard Vernon, Nicole Stephane, Jean-Marie Robain
DVD; mono
French dialogue; English subtitles