movie
the citadel of silence
A
movie
by
Marcel L'HERBIER
with
Bernard LANCRET, ANNABELLA, Pierre RENOIR
Synopsis :
In Poland in the years just before WWI, Cesar Birsky is convicted for his involvement in an attempted revolt against the occupying Russians. Birsky is sentenced to a prison where the immates are not permitted to speak. His girlfriend Viana marries the prison commandant in the hopes of helping her true love. Birsky eventually leads a mass escape from the Citadel of Silence.