The Silence of the Sea with Hail, Sarajevo

Program History

Hail, Sarajevo
Je vous salue, Sarajevo
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1993, 3 min
In French with English subtitles

with

The Silence of the Sea
Le Silence de la mer
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949, 87 min
In French with English subtitles

In the late 1990s and 2000s, Godard had a series of unrealized projects with Claude Lanzmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Marcel Ophuls relating to the Holocaust, Jewishness and Palestine–Israel. He also had several related solo ventures, including a contemporary version of Vercors’ 1942 World War II novel Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea), which Jean-Pierre Melville had adapted as his first feature. In Godard’s planned film, to be called Le Silence de la terre (The Silence of the Earth), the action was to be transposed from occupied France to occupied Palestine. Although he abandoned this project, it informed his luminous 2004 Sarajevo-set feature Notre musique (Our Music). This program also includes the stunning short film that Godard made in 1993 in protest at the refusal of European governments to take action over the siege of Sarajevo, Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Hail Sarajevo, 1993).

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