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The grimmest in tone of all Jennings' work and essentially a fiction film, The Silent Village is both a memorial and message. |
The Nazis destruction of the Czechoslovakian mining village of Lidice in reprisal for the assassination of Heydnch, the 'Protector' of that occupied country, deeply shocked the Allies. Imagining the tragedy in a Welsh mining town, Jennings does more than just draw parallels, he reinforces the horrors of the war abroad by transcribing them over the familiarities of 'home'.