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