Irwin Winkler attends the "Silence" premiere in Los Angeles

Producer Irwin Winkler attends the premiere of the motion picture historical drama "Silence" at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles on January 5, 2017. Storyline: In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism - at a time when Catholicism was outlawed and their presence forbidden. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI