| Other author/creator | Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973 film director, screenwriter, interviewee (expression) |
| Other author/creator | Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990, presenter. |
| Other author/creator | Cartier, Marcel, film producer. |
| Other author/creator | Vernon, Howard, 1914-1996, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Stéphane, Nicole, 1928-2007 actor. |
| Other author/creator | Robain, Jean-Marie (Actor), actor. |
| Other author/creator | Aaröe, Ami, 1925- actor. |
| Other author/creator | Patrix, Georges, 1920-1992, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Sadier, Denis, actor. |
| Other author/creator | Decae, Henri, cinematographer. |
| Other author/creator | Bischoff, Edgar, composer (expression) |
| Other author/creator | Bonneau, Paul, conductor. |
| Other author/creator | Vaxelaire, Edmond, production manager. |
| Other author/creator | Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948- interviewee (expression) |
| Other author/creator | Chalais, François, 1919-1996, interviewer (expression) |
| Other author/creator | O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948- writer of supplementary textual content. |
| Other author/creator | Nogueira, Rui, 1938- writer of supplementary textual content. |
| Other author/creator | Motion picture adaptation of (work): Vercors, 1902-1991. Silence de la mer. |
| Other author/creator | Orchestre des concerts Colonne performer. |
| Other author/creator | Janus Films, production company. |
| Other author/creator | Gaumont (Firm), production company. |
| Other author/creator | Melville Productions, production company. |
| Other author/creator | Criterion Collection (Firm) film distributor. |
| Uniform title | Silence de la mer (Motion picture) |
| Variant title |
Silence of the sea |
| Physical medium | 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 755
Criterion collection ; 755. ^A458475
|
| Abstract |
1941. An idealistic, naive German officer in Nazi occupied France 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. |
| General note | From the novel by Vercors (Jean Marcel Bruller). |
| General note | Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. |
| General note | Special features: Disc 2: 24 hours in the life of a clown (1946, Melville's seventeen-minute first film); Melville steps out of the shadows (2010, a 42-minute documentary about Le Silence De La Mer); Code name Melville (2008, a 76-minute documentary on Melville's time in the French Resistance and his films about it); Ginette Vincendeau (new interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau about the film); Cinépanorama (interview with Melville aired on the April 18, 1959 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama, conducted by François Chalais). Booklet includes essay "Stranger in the House" by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira's 1971 book Melville on Melville. |
| Credits | Director of photography, Henri Decae ; music, Edgar Bischoff ; Grand Orchestre des Concerts Colonne ; conductor, Paul Bonneau ; production director, Edmond Vaxelaire. |
| Cast |
Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier. |
| Audience |
[Not rated]. |
| Technical details | DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural. |
| Language | In French and German with English subtitles. |
| Genre/form | Feature films France. |
| Genre/form | Foreign language films French. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | Feature films. |
| Genre/form | Fiction films. |
| Genre/form | Film adaptations. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Genre/form | War films. |
| Genre/form | War films. |
| Genre/form | Film adaptations. |
| Genre/form | Fiction films. |
| Genre/form | Feature films. |
| Genre/form | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Genre/form | French language materials. |
| Other title | 24 hours in the life of a clown. |
| Other title | Code name Melville. |
| Other title | Melville Steps Out of the Shadows. |
| ISBN | 9781604659870 |
| ISBN | 1604659874 |
| UPC |
715515145015 |
| Publisher number | CC2479DDVD The Criterion Collection |
| Publisher number | CC2479D The Criterion Collection |
| Publisher number | CC2479D-1 The Criterion Collection (disc 1) |
| Publisher number | CC2479D-2 The Criterion Collection (disc 2) |
| Stock number | Midwest Tape http://www.midwesttapes.com |
