The Silent Village
Humphrey Jennings
1943 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 36'
Photography : H.E. Fowle
Sound : Jock May, Ken Cameron
Editing : Stewart McAllister
Production : Crown Film Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)
Humphrey Jennings
1943 - Grande-Bretagne - Noir & Blanc - 36'
The source for The Silent Village was the Nazis' massacre of one hundred seventy male inhabitants of the mining village of Lidice during the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Jennings moved the story to a Welsh mining village, using local miners as his cast.
Photography : H.E. Fowle
Sound : Jock May, Ken Cameron
Editing : Stewart McAllister
Production : Crown Film Unit
Distribution : BFI (fleur.buckley@bfi.org.uk, +44 (020) 7957 4709)