The Call of Silence explained

The Call of Silence
Director:	Léon Poirier
Producer:	Léon Poirier
Music:	Claude Delvincourt
Cinematography:	Goudard Georges Georges Million
Studio:	Societé Artistique Commerciale et Industrielle
Distributor:	Compagnie Industrielle Cinématographique
Runtime:	109 minutes
Country:	France
Language:	French

The Call of Silence, also screened as The Call (French: L'Appel du Silence), is a 1936 French drama film directed by Léon Poirier and starring Jean Yonnel, Pierre de Guingand and Jacqueline Francell. It is a biography based on the life of the Catholic missionary Charles de Foucauld.^[1]

Plot

Charles de Foucauld travels the Sahara as a missionary. He is killed by local bandits.

Jean Yonnel as Charles de Foucauld
Pierre de Guingand as Général Laperrine
Jacqueline Francell as Mademoiselle X
Alice Tissot as La femme du notaire
Suzanne Bianchetti as La femme du monde
Pierre Juvenet as Le colonel
Thomy Bourdelle as Un général
- André Nox Pierre Nay as Le marquis de Morès
  - - - Fred Pasquali Auguste Bovério Alexandre Mihalesco Fernand Francell Jeanne Marie-Laurent Georges Cahuzac Jean Kolb Henri Defreyn Maurice Schutz Victor Vina Émile Saint-Ober
  - Maurice de Canonge Pierre Darteuil Pierre Athon as Lieutenant de Guissart
René Bergeron
- Jean Buquet Mireille Monard as Pianist
Francia Seguy

Andrews, Dudley. Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press, 1995.