In November 1998, President Jacques Chirac made Marceau a grand officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. The art of silence speaks to the soul, like music, making comedy, tragedy, and romance, involving you and your life.

The film features interviews with Marcel’s surviving family members, which includes his teenage grandson Louis Chevalier, who is trained as a dancer. Instead of giving us details on his life or skills it apes his singular fascination, digs into what he was interested in and in doing so makes us understand his importance indirectly. The outfit signified life's fragility, and Bip became his alter ego, just as the " Little Tramp" had become Charlie Chaplin's. He inspires several generations of artists, among them his own grandson and family, who cast a new light on.He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work. Regisseur Maurizius Staerkle Drux versteht es, seine eigene Familiengeschichte (gehörloser Vater, der auch als Pantomime auftritt), Interviews mit den Verwandten und Schülern sowie das Filmen derer theatralischer Aktivitäten in sehr klug konzipierter Schnittfolge mit alten Aufnahmen des Meisters zu einem flüssigen Ganzen zu verbinden.

After the war ended in 1945, he enrolled as a student in Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art in the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris, where he studied with teachers such as Joshua Smith and Étienne Decroux [10] and Jean-Louis Barrault. The Art of Silence' sheds new light on his life and unique art form, which his family and companions keep alive to this day. Owing to Marceau's fluency in English, French, and German, he worked as a liaison officer with General George Patton's Third Army. His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman, Mike Douglas and Dinah Shore, and he also had his one-man show entitled "Meet Marcel Marceau". The ensemble played the leading Paris theatres, such as Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, and the Bernhardt Theatre, as well as other playhouses throughout the world.In 1982, Le Troisième Œil, ( The Third Eye), his collection of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris with an accompanying text by Marceau. With his facial expressions and few gestures, he expressed more hope, joy or pain than so many Greek drama. C., the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles demonstrating the timeless appeal of the work and the mastery of this unique artist.

Foreword to Stefan Niedziałkowski's and Jonathan Winslow's 1993 book, Beyond the Word—the World of Mime. In 1969, Marcel Marceau opened his first school, École Internationale de Mime, in the Théàtre de la Musique in Paris.He inspires several generations of artists, among them his own grandson and family, who cast a new light on his life's work. Two years after 2020’s Resistance depicted a fictionalized look at Marcel Marceau’s participation in the French resistance, The Art of Silenced is being pegged as the first documentary look at Marceau’s career, with his time in the war paving the way for how he would develop as a mime. His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Taiwan, Russia, and Europe.