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The Silent Village

Informations

Année : 1943

Pays de production : Royaume-Uni

Durée : 36mn

Format : 16 mm

Générique

Réalisation : Humphrey Jennings
Image : H.E Fowle
Montage : Stewart McAllister
Son : Jock May
Production : The Crown Film Unit

Synopsis

Le film a pour origine le massacre de cent-soixante-dix hommes du village minier de Lidice perpétré par les Nazis, pendant l’invasion allemande de la Tchécoslovaquie. Jennings a déplacé l’histoire dans un village minier gallois et fait jouer certains de ses mineurs.

The film is based on the Nazi massacre of one hundred and seventy men in the mining village of Lidice during the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Jennings moved the story to a Welsh mining village and cast some of its miners.