The Silent Village
- 1943
- United Kingdom
- 36 minutes
- English
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courtesy of BFI National Archive -
courtesy of BFI National Archive -
courtesy of BFI National Archive
A film in memory of Lidice, a Czech mining village razed to the ground by the Nazis in reprisal for the murder of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia-Moravia, by two Czech agents. Jennings transfers the story of this massacre of a hundred and seventy-three men to Wales, setting it in a similar working-class village, Cwmgiedd. The villagers closely identified with the tragedy and successfully transposed and re-enacted it within a British context.
- Production : Humphrey Jennings; Crown Film Unit; British Ministry of Information
- Editing : Stewart McAllister
- Sound : Jock May
- Photography : H.E. Fowle
- Screenplay : Humphrey Jennings
- Copy Contact : British Film Institute
