Silence (Russian: Тишина, romanized: Tishina) is a Soviet two-part feature film directed by Vladimir Basov and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Yuri Bondarev.

[2] In 1945, with other servicemen, demobilized after the end of World War II, 22-year-old Captain Sergey Vohmintsev, commander of an artillery battery, returns from Germany.

He utters patriotic toasts and offers his friendship, but Vohmintsev refuses to drink with him for Stalin and leads Nina away, leaving the guests.

Sergey also believes in justice: to defend the good name of his father before the competent authorities, he needs time, and so he comes to the dean's office with a request to exempt him from the summer internship.

Sergei leaves far away from his native place, to Kazakhstan, where even with his stained biography he is able to get a job in his specialty, and lives without abandoning the hope that sooner or later the truth will be uncovered.