Le Silence de la mer (French: [lə silɑ̃s də la mɛʁ]), English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors".

[1] Published secretly in German-occupied Paris in 1942,[2] the book quickly became a symbol of mental resistance against German occupiers.

A French-language film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Silence de la mer, was released in 1949.

A second English-language TV adaptation was broadcast by the BBC in 1981, and a stage version by John Crowther was performed by The Heywood Society in the theatre at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1985, under the title Talking in the Night.

[4] Le Silence de la Mer, a French–Belgian TV adaptation, was directed by Pierre Boutron and screened in 2004.