The Citadel of Silence | |
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Directed by | Marcel L'Herbier |
Written by | Jean Anouilh André Cerf T.H. Robert J.J. Thoren |
Produced by | Joseph Lucachevitch |
Starring | Annabella Pierre Renoir Bernard Lancret |
Cinematography | Louis Née Armand Thirard |
Edited by | Roger Spiri-Mercaton |
Music by | Darius Milhaud |
Production company | Impérial Film |
Distributed by | SEDIF |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
The Citadel of Silence (French: La citadelle du silence) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Annabella, Pierre Renoir and Bernard Lancret. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne.
In Tsarist Russia before the First World War a young female revolutionary attempts to kill a senior official. It is her lover who is arrested however and to try and rescue him she becomes romantically close to the commander the fortress where he is imprisoned.