The Silence of the Sea
1949 · 87 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 5,917 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Pierre Melville
Overview
In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany. That is, until he visits Paris and discovers what is really going on...
Dialogue Timeline — 526 lines
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00:01:03 THE SILENCE OF THE SEA
00:05:58 they armed with my carpenter bank and a hole that they made in the wall
00:11:40 Not you if German had listened to us or if for chance she/he had come somewhere around
00:14:30 and a smile translated the pleasure that caused him that exam
00:16:47 Here it is not anything, the winter in France it is tempered
00:19:33 I believe that of all this big things will come out.
00:21:45 the music, France. It was an endless monologue.
00:23:40 the Italians in Dante, the Spaniards in Cervantes
00:27:44 It will be necessary to conquer that silence
00:29:30 the beast transforms, she/he becomes a gentleman
00:34:22 the divine nature, of the human soul
00:36:23 I will have to live a lot of time here, in a house like this
00:38:29 and when Werner it dissipated that silence
00:41:18 when she/he almost died we were boyfriends, she/he allowed to stroll alone
00:44:24 to truly be big and pure
00:47:08 as you they make it and those that obey
00:48:39 preparing the wonderful union of both towns
00:52:33 One day I had to go to the Command for a declaration of rubbers.
00:57:22 6 months they were heard behind. I thought Today it rains."
01:00:48 How much light!
01:07:45 We can destroy France and we will make it.
01:09:05 Do you believe that we will doubt? We are of another species.
01:13:31 And she/he left to read their poems to Munich.
01:15:36 God! Show me where my duty is!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed526
Dialogue density6.0 lines / min
First line00:01:03
Final line01:15:36
Production Record
DirectorJean-Pierre Melville
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes5,917