The Torture of Silence
1917 French silent drama film
- 7 March 1917 (1917-03-07)
Running time
French intertitles
The Torture of Silence (French: Mater dolorosa) is a 1917 French silent drama film directed by Abel Gance.[1]
Cast
- Emmy Lynn as Manon Berliac
- Firmin Gémier as Emile Berliac
- Armand Tallier as François Rolland
- Anthony Gildès as Jean
- Paul Vermoyal as Jean Dormis
- Gaston Modot
- Antonin Carène
- Antonin Artaud
Reception
Like many American films of the time, the French film The Torture of Silence was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit and required a cut in reel 2 of the last scene with the nude boy with sex visible.[2]
References
External links
- Mater dolorosa at IMDb
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Abel Gance
Filmography
- La Digue (1911)
- The Mask of Horror (1912)
- La Folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
- Un drame au château d'Acre (1915)
- Le périscope (1916)
- Les Gaz mortels (1916)
- Le droit à la vie (1917)
- The Torture of Silence (1917)
- Barberousse (1917)
- The Zone of Death (1917)
- The Tenth Symphony (1918)
- J'accuse (1919)
- La Roue (1923)
- Au Secours! (1924)
- Napoléon (1927)
- End of the World (1931)
- The Ironmaster (1933)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1934)
- Poliche (1934)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
- Beethoven's Great Love (1936)
- The Woman Thief (1938)
- J'accuse! (1938)
- Louise (1939)
- Paradise Lost (1940)
- Vénus aveugle (1941)
- Captain Fracasse (1943)
- Tower of Lust (1955)
- Austerlitz (1960)
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964)
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