Tystnaden, The Silence (1963) Ingmar Bergman

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Annas young son, Johan, check into a nearempty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.