The Silence

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

With Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg and Jörgen Lindström

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.