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Voice of Silence

5.4

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Original title

La voce del silenzio

Year

1953

Running time

110 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Screenwriter

Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Giuseppe Berto, Oreste Biancoli, Pierre Bost, Roland Laudenbach, Tullio Pinelli, Giorgio Prosperi, Ákos TolnaySee 4 More

Cast

Music

Enzo Masetti

Cinematography

Gábor Pogány (B&W)

Producer

Co-production Italy-France;

Franco London Films, Società Italiana Cines

Genre

Drama | Religion

Synopsis

group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. They comprise of a candle-maker, a politician, an ex-prisoner, a novelist and a petty thief trying to elude the police. All have their own spiritual problems to solve, except the thief. The politician, a former partisan leader, suffers the remorse of causing the deaths of three innocent men on a sabotage mission; he is set for the priesthood. The prisoner, a sick and possibly dying man, lacks the courage to visit his wife who is now happily remarried; his padre has advised him to leave her alone. The novelist bears the moral responsibility for offences committed by young people led astray by his writings; he earns a lot for his work, but is too demoralized to continue. Then the candle-maker - miserly, smooth-talking and bigoted - is unlikely to receive any benefit from his retreat to the monastery.

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Voice of Silence

1953

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

5.4

(22)