Voice of Silence
Synopsis
A 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. Interwoven with the stories of these men is the drama of a priest who, overwhelmed by doubt, still finds the inner force to go forward. In the end the thief repents and leaves the monastery after making an offering to the Madonna of his stolen goods.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Franco-London Films
- Foreign production company : Cinès
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Discifilm
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Henry Deutschmeister
- Adaptation : Pierre Bost, Roland Laudenbach
- Screenwriters : Oreste Biancoli, Tullio Pinelli, Giorgio Prosperi, Akos Tolnay
- Dialogue Writers : Pierre Bost, Roland Laudenbach
- Director of Photography : Gabor Pogany
- Music Composer : Enzo Masetti
- Assistant directors : Serge Vallin, Bruno Paolinelli
- Editor : Eraldo Da Roma
- Foreign Producer : Silvio Raffaele D'Amico
- Production Designer : Guido Fiorini
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, Italian
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1953
- French release : 29/04/1953
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 13448
- Visa issue date : 27/04/1953
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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