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Le Silence de la mer
FRANCE · 1949

Le Silence de la mer

Jean-Pierre Melville
Occupation and Resistance Silent Protest German-French Relations Moral Ambiguity Isolation and Confinement
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Synopsis

In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.

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