Printed Screenplay
Together with the two films preceding it, Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Winter Light (1963) this was the first Bergman film to have its script published in his native language, as En filmtrilogi ("A Film Trilogy", Norstedts, Stockholm, 1964). Four scripts from his late-fifties breakthrough years, including The Seventh Seal had been printed in Britain a few years before, as translated into English, but they had seen limited circulation. The trilogy screenplays initiated regular printing of Bergman's film scripts in Sweden and elsewhere.
The Silence uses minimal dialogue, the entire screenplay containing only a mere 1,710 words of actual dialogue lines - while the settings and wordless actions receive much more atention.
Read more about this topic: The Silence (1963 Film)
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