Calm at Sea ( La mer à l'aube ) ( Das Meer am Morgen )

Calm at Sea (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La mer à l'aube
Alternate Title: Das Meer am Morgen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min + 54 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Volker Schlöndorff

Written By:
Volker Schlöndorff

Actors:
Léo-Paul Salmain ..... Guy Môquet
Marc Barbé ..... Jean-Pierre Timbaud
Ulrich Matthes ..... Ernst Jünger
Jean-Marc Roulot ..... Lucien Touya
Philippe Résimont ..... Le sous-préfet Bernard Lecornu
Charlie Nelson ..... L'abbé Moyon
Martin Loizillon ..... Charmille
Sébastien Accart
Gilles Arbona
Arnaud Simon
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Arielle Dombasle
Luc Florian
André Jung
Harald Schrott

Synopsis:

Based on real events and the writings of Pierre-Louis Basse, Ernst Jünger and Heinrich Böll, Calm at Sea is set in 1941 in a French internment camp whose inmates include political prisoners as well as criminals. When Resistance fighters assassinate a German officer, Hitler orders that 150 French prisoners must be killed. Some German officers are uneasy about such reprisals, as are the ineffectual French guards and functionaries, but even a compromise solution results in a terrible injustice. Adopting a scrupulously even-handed and unsentimental approach, and displaying a sharp sense of political and historical detail, Schlöndorff's film also packs quite an emotional punch.

October 1941. Eighteen months into France's occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins' political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders...

The film follows the story of a 17-year-old who joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France in 1941.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 05 September, 2012.

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