Silence(Movie, 2016)
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Silence is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by
Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō. The film stars
Andrew Garfield,
Adam Driver,
Tadanobu Asano,
Ciarán Hinds and
Liam Neeson. The plot follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo period Japan via Macau to locate their missing mentor and spread Catholic Christianity. The story is set in a time when it was common for the faith's Japanese adherents to hide from the persecution that resulted from the suppression of Christianity in Japan after the Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638) against the Tokugawa shogunate. These are now called the Kakure Kirishitan, or "hidden Christians". It is the third filmed adaptation of Endō's...
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Awards & Nominations for Silence
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography
About Silence
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Trailer for Silence + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips
Official Trailer(Trailer, 2:14)
Additional Information
Translated into 31 languages:
Arabic (AR),
Bulgarian (BG),
Czech (CS),
Danish (DA),
German (DE),
Greek (EL),
English (EN),
Spanish (ES),
Estonian (ET),
Finnish (FI),
French (FR),
Hebrew (HE),
Hungarian (HU),
Italian (IT),
Japanese (JA),
Korean (KO),
Lithuanian (LT),
Latvian (LV),
Dutch (NL),
Polish (PL),
Portuguese (PT),
Romanian (RO),
Russian (RU),
Slovak (SK),
Slovenian (SL),
Serbian (SR),
Swedish (SV),
Thai (TH),
Turkish (TR),
Ukrainian (UK),
Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)Status: Released
Release date US: 12/23/2016 (World premiere: 12/22/2016)
Appearing Characters: Giuseppe Chiara, Alessandro Valignano, Cristóvão Ferreira, Inoue Masashige, Engelbert Kaempfer
Dedicated to: Catholic Church in Japan, Francesca Scorsese, Helen Schermerhorn Morris
Cast:
Andrew Garfield,
Liam Neeson,
Adam Driver,
Tadanobu Asano,
Ciarán Hinds,
Shinya Tsukamoto,
Yōsuke Kubozuka,
Issey Ogata,
Yoshi Oida,
Sabu,
Ryō Kase,
Nana Komatsu,
Katsuo Nakamura,
Béla Baptiste
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Silence - Silencio"
"Мълчание"
"Silêncio"
"Vaikus"
"Silencio"
"خاموشی"
"沈黙 -サイレンス-"
"沈黙 サイレンス"
"사일런스"
"Milczenie Boga"
"Молчание"
"ศรัทธาไม่เงียบ"
Keywords:
martyrdom,
jesuits (society of jesus),
religious persecution,
christianity,
crisis of faith,
based on novel or book,
shogunate,
torture,
portuguese,
missionary,
religious icon,
betrayal,
japan,
17th centuryBudget: 46,000,000 USD
Revenue: 23,737,523 USD (= 52%)
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