Silence de la Mer, Le (1949) review

In occupied France (it's WWII, after all), an elderly French gentleman (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) are forced to take in German officer Lt. Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon) - when he's around them they refuse to utter a single word, so he talks about his childhood and his "love" of the French culture ... but after he takes a trip to Paris and learns about the Holocaust and the plans to annihilate the country, he becomes disillusioned.  This clearly came from a place of personal experience - Melville was a member of the Resistance and most likely traumatized by it - but the voice over is excessive ... and with only Vernon's character speaking and giving "his side" of the story it's more like an extended monologue, which probably worked better on the page (the source text is by Jean Bruller, using the pen name "Vercours").  I'm curious as to whether or not Albert Camus either saw this (or read the novel) and it had an influence on The Fall....