Tystnaden

‘Morally damaging incitement’ or ‘untouchable work of art’? Hardly any other film by the Swedish director has left audiences as divided as the story of two sisters, one of whom is seriously ill and destroyed by her love for the other, while the latter devotes herself to strange men in a foreign city ... The masses rushed into this chilling melodrama, which caused a veritable scandal due to its permissiveness.
(Florian Widegger)