The Silent Battle (1937 film)

1937 film

The Silent Battle

Directed by| Pierre Billon
Written by|

* Jean Bommart (novel)
* Pierre Billon
* Jacques Natanson

Produced by| Robert Aisner
Starring|

* Käthe von Nagy
* Pierre Fresnay
* Michel Simon

Cinematography| Louis Page
Edited by| Léonide Azar
Music by| Louis Beydts

Production
company

Héraut Film

Distributed by| Pathé Consortium Cinéma

Release date

* 9 September 1937 (1937-09-09)

Running time

| 113 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

The Silent Battle (French: La bataille silencieuse) is a 1937 French thriller film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Fresnay and Michel Simon.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. It was remade as a British film of the same title in 1939.

## Synopsis

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A journalist on the trail of a group of arms smugglers becomes aware of an impending attack on the Orient Express.

## Cast

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* Käthe von Nagy as Draguicha
* Pierre Fresnay as Bordier
* Michel Simon as Sauvin
* Abel Tarride as Bartoff
* Renée Corciade as L'américaine
* Pierre Sergeol as Fernando
* Geno Ferny as Ernest
* Ernest Ferny as Méricant
* Albert Gercourt as Sanneman
* Pierre Huchet as Le sécretaire
* André Alerme as Le directeur du journal

## References

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1. ^ The A to Z of French Cinema p.174

## Bibliography

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* Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

## External links

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* The Silent Battle at IMDb

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Films directed by Pierre Billon

* Venetian Nights (1931)
* Should We Wed Them? (1932)
* The Fakir of the Grand Hotel (1934)
* The House on the Dune (1934)
* Bourrasque (1935)
* Second Bureau (1935)
* In the Service of the Tsar (1936)
* Southern Mail (1937)
* The Silent Battle (1937)
* The Inevitable Monsieur Dubois (1943)
* Vautrin (1943)
* Mademoiselle X (1945)
* The Eternal Husband (1946)
* Ruy Blas (1948)
* Agnes of Nothing (1950)
* Chéri (1950)
* Farewell Mister Grock (1950)
* My Friend Oscar (1951)
* My Seal and Them (1951)
* The Merchant of Venice (1953)
* Storm (1954)
* Suspicion (1956)
* Until the Last One (1957)

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