''The Torture of Silence'' (french: Mater dolorosa) is a 1917 French silent

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directed by Abel Gance.

Cast

* Emmy Lynn as Manon Berliac * Firmin Gémier as Emile Berliac * Armand Tallier as François Rolland *

Anthony Gildès Anthony Gildès (13 August 1856 – 6 October 1941) was a French actor. Anthony Gildès was born Anatole Gleizes in Metz, France. He died in Paris at age 85. Selected filmography * '' The Zone of Death'' (1917) * '' The Torture of Silence'' (191 ...

as Jean *

Paul Vermoyal Pierre Paul Vermoyal (18 October 1888 – 28 September 1925) was a French stage and film actor. Biography Vermoyal was born in Braye-en-Laonnois, Aisne, Picardy. He began his career on the stages of the Grand Guignol theatre in the Quartier Pi ...

as Jean Dormis *

Gaston Modot Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors. Biography Modot lived in Montmartre at the beginning of the 20th cen ...

* 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.

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* 1917 films 1917 drama films French drama films 1910s French-language films French silent feature films French black-and-white films Films directed by Abel Gance Silent drama films 1910s French films {{1910s-drama-film-stub