The Silence of the Sea [Le silence de la mer]

N.p. N.p., Circa 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film, showing director Jean-Pierre Melville and a camera crew capturing a scene with Nicole Stéphane and Jean-Marie Robain. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso.

Based on the 1949 novel by Jean Bruller writing as Vercors. In occupied France, a young woman and her uncle are forced to give shelter to a German lieutenant, and silently agree to endure the man's presence by refusing to acknowledge him for the duration of his stay. Melville's feature film debut.

10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with a light crease at the bottom left corner, reinforced with paper tape on the verso.

Criterion Collection 755. Grant France.

[Book #163331]