Silence

Silence

1971130 min7.2 / 10

A profound, meditative interrogation of faith, doubt, and the cost of religious conviction set against the brutal persecution of Christianity in 17th-century Japan.

In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

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